[Sanatorium treatment of children with tuberculosis associated with nonspecific lung diseases]. / Sanatornoe lechenie detei, bol'nykh tuberkulezom v sochetanii s nespetsificheskimi zabolevaniiami legkikh.

The paper analyzes the treatment made in 110 children with tuberculosis and non-specific lung diseases (NSLD) and in 52 control children without concurrent tuberculous pathology in sanatoria and health resorts. Evolving local tuberculosis was observed in 11.9% of the children with concurrent diseases and infection and an exacerbation of tuberculous process was seen in 26.5%. Failures in the treatment are accounted for not only by the aggravating impact of NSLD, but by physicians' poor attention to comorbidity.

[Use of differentiated pathogenetic therapy in the treatment of newly detected pulmonary tuberculosis in adolescents and young persons]. / Primenenie differentsirovannoi patogeneticheskoi terapii v lechenii vpervye vyiavlennogo tuberkuleza legkikh u podrostkov i lits molodogo vozrasta.

It has been possible to achieve cavity closure earlier than usual in 162 patients aged from 15 to 25 years with newly discovered pulmonary tuberculosis by combining an intensive chemotherapy with early and differential administration of levamisole, tuberculin, intraorganic electrophoresis and ultrasound. Immunologic examination of the patients upon their admission to a hospital and in the course of their treatment made it possible to exercise a differential approach to the administration of pathogenetic drugs. The use of the immunostimulators, like levamisole in the first months of treatment and tuberculin at the second stage of therapy, significantly enhances the efficacy of chemotherapy.