[Gastroduodenal mucosal morphological changes in tuberculosis-infected children]. / Morfologicheskie izmeneniia slizistoi obolochki zheludka i dvenadtsatiperstnoi kishki u detei, infitsirovannykh tuberkulezom.

Three groups of children aged 4 to 14 years who complained of having dyspepsia were examined. Group 1 included 31 children without tuberculous infection; Group 2 comprised 30 newly tuberculosis-infected children; Group 3 consisted of 35 children who had an over one-year history of the infection. Esophagoduodenoscopy and biopsy indicated that the incidence of Helicobacter infection and gastritis was higher in children with tuberculous infection than in those without it and it was directly related to the duration of infection. The specific features of chronic gastritis in the infected children were the totality of gastric mucous lesion with more profound antral changes, the predominance of progressive gastritis, as appeared as neutrophilic infiltration, gastric mucous contamination with Helicobacter and Candida, and metaplasia.

[Day hospital as a stage of basic treatment regimen for new cases if pulmonary tuberculosis]. / Dnevnoí statsionar kak étap osnovnogo kursa lecheniia vpervye vyiavlennykh bol'nykh tuberkulezom organov dykhaniia.

Three-stage treatment using a day hospital instead of a sanatorium with regards to the pattern of a tuberculosis process can achieve the results of closure of decay and abacillation cavities, which are not inferior to those with the conventional treatment, by reducing the basic regimen through the length of a hospital stage. The efficiency of two-stage treatment (day hospital--outpatient clinic) of lung tissue decay and culture-positive patients depends on the duration of the basic regimen, patient compliance, and the presence of a concomitant abnormality.

[Use of UHF electrical field in combination wtih antitubercular agents in the treatment of patients with infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis]. / Ispol'zovanie élektricheskogo polia UVCh v sochetanii s protivotuberkuleznymi preparatami pri lechenii bol'nykh infil'trativnym tuberkulezom legkikh.

The application of 40 and 60 W UHF electrical fields in a complex treatment of infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis with a predominantly exudative type of inflammation at early stages makes it possible to achieve higher rates of infiltration resolution; to promote, according to 6-month cavity closure criterion, the increase of the treatment efficacy for 45.6 and 68.3%; to decrease the hospital period of treatment for 55 +/- 10 bed days; and to form minimum residual changes. With this physical factor the external respiration function improves. In infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis with a predominantly productive type of inflammation, the UHF therapy can exert a minor positive influence.

[Preliminary results of a study on shortening periods of treatment and temporary disability of patients with tuberculosis of the respiratory organs]. / Predvaritel'nye rezul'taty issledovanii po sokrashcheniiu srokov lecheniia i vremennoi netrudosposobnosti bol'nykh tuberkulezom organov dykhaniia.

Clinical trials aimed at decreasing the terms of treatment and temporary disability in various categories of new cases of tuberculosis of the respiratory organs were conducted. It was shown to be possible at the account of decreasing the hospitalization period and increasing the role of controlled outpatient therapy.