[Organization of hospital care to patients with tuberculosis concurrent with HIV infection in Tuberculosis care hospital No. seven].
HIV-infection morbidity rates continue to increase in Moscow, the Moscow Region, and in the whole country. The epidemiological situation associated with tuberculosis concurrent with HIV infection remains tense in Moscow and its region, as judged from the data of an analysis of this disease at tuberculosis hospital seven (TH-7) over 9 years. A total of 411 patients with tuberculosis concurrent with HIV infection were treated at TH-7 in 1996 to December 2004. Among them, 49.6% were Moscow residents, 15.1 and 26.5% of the patients lived in the Moscow Region and other regions of the Russian Federation, respectively; 6.8% were homeless persons and 2% foreigners. The number of patients with tuberculosis concurrent with HIV infection has been annually increasing at TH-7. Among the total number of patients, their proportion was 13.4% in 2004. In the structure of patients with comorbidity, the proportion of surgical patients has been on the rise and it was 51.8% in 2004. Among the surgical patients with tuberculosis concurrent with HIV, the proportion of patients with generalized (multiple organ) tuberculosis has increased; it was 50% in 2004. Patients with tuberculosis concurrent with HIV infection need a greater scope of surgical interventions al number of patients for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes.
Batyrov
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Chukanov
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Shchelkanova
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Karpenko
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Sementsova
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Iarovaia
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006763:Hospitals, Chronic Disease / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009031:Moscow / Q000453:epidemiology; D020380:Needs Assessment; D015995:Prevalence; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*