title: [Pulmonary tuberculosis and problems of its revealing in elderly and senile patients].
abstract: Analysis of the revealed for the first time pulmonary tuberculosis in persons of the elderly and senile age has shown that this age category composes 5% among all the patients over 18 years old and it makes up 19,2% of the cases with fibro-cavernous tuberculosis and 25,6% of postmortem diagnosis. A severe structure of clinical forms and features of TB process in 114 hospitalized patients over 65 was determined; this results from the violation of required terms of preventive X-ray examination. These patients appear to be highly dangerous epidemiologically. Advantages of active TB identification in persons of the elderly and senile age were proved. We've come to the conclusion that elaboration of effective measures to improve active identification of this disease is extremely necessary; we've proposed some specific steps aimed at increasing of timely identification of TB in this age group.
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Koretskaia
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Narkevich
mesh_terms: D017668:Age of Onset; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D018450:Disease Progression; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D005260:Female; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration; D008297:Male; D008400:Mass Chest X-Ray; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control