[Composition and morphological characteristics of deaths from tuberculosis].
Two hundred and forty eighty deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis were analyzed in adults. The most frequent cause of deaths was progressive tuberculosis, mainly as caseous pneumonia (60.9%) and the less frequent one was a multicavernous process with bronchogenic (28%) and hematogenic (15%) dissemination. The high incidence of specific intrathoracic lymph nodal lesions, which has increased from 10.8% in 1994-1995 to 30.4% in 1997-1999, and a larger number of hematogenic dissemination from 6.7 to 25.6%, respectively, are noteworthy. Progressive tuberculosis was most commonly favoured by the patients' inadequate attitude towards their health: delayed visits to a doctor when they have symptoms of the disease, the absence of fluorographic examinations, treatment errors due to their incompliance.
Kobeleva
G V
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Kopylova
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IF
Grigor'eva
E A
EA
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality* / Q000503:physiopathology