title: [Causes of death from fibrocavernous pulmonary tuberculosis in the Sverdlovsk Region].
abstract: In the Sverdlovsk Region, the main reason of death from tuberculosis is a fibrocavernous pulmonary process (51.8%) that is most commonly detected in the postportem diagnosis of tuberculosis (61.9%). Before death, patients with fibrocavernous tuberculosis do not ask for medical aid frequently (73.4%). In the first-year follow-up, most deceased persons come to health care facilities 3 months or more after the occurrence of significant clinical symptoms (60.8%). The refusals of patients to receive in- and outpatient therapy, multiple discharges from hospital due to their incompliance, following by long-term therapy discontinuance, which led to secondary multidrug resistance, were responsible for progressive tuberculosis that was the main cause of death from a fibrocavernous process.
authors.forename: O B
authors.initials: OB
authors.lastname: Nechaeva
authors.forename: E I
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Skachkova
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000401:mortality*; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000401:mortality*