[The rehabilitation of middle-aged and elderly patients in a pulmonary tuberculosis clinic].
In respect of other age groups the number of elderly and old patients constantly increases and today it constitutes the 5th part of population in many countries. That's why the "ageing" of tuberculosis is a natural process. The urgency of the problem of pulmonary tuberculosis in the elderly and senile age is determined by the high epidemiologic indices of disease incidence, by the difficulties of diagnosis and clinical course and by the peculiarities of rehabilitative measures in the patients of these age groups. The article deals with some medical aspects of the hospital period of rehabilitation in the patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. These aspects concern the new methodological approaches to the evaluation of therapeutic efficiency and to the formation of patient populations of the elderly and senile age, who need the restorative treatment under conditions of the specialized rehabilitative department.
Petrosian
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Sholokhov
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VK
D000368:Aged; D006772:Hospitals, Military; D006782:Hospitals, Special; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008889:Military Personnel; D015272:Pulmonary Medicine; D012008:Recurrence; D012426:Russia; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000534:rehabilitation*