ABSTRACT
A total of 6230 case histories and the data of annual reports over the past 7 years were examined. A therapeutic-and-diagnostic process continues to be improved under the present-day conditions. Patients admitted to the sanatorium for the inadequately substantiated etiology of ocular tuberculosis underwent an additional differential diagnostic study. The diagnosis of tuberculosis was verified only in 31.29% of cases. The optimized procedure for etiotropic chemotherapy for patients with new-onset ocular tuberculosis has been introduced. A scheme for intensifying the treatment of recurrent ocular tuberculosis, which permits high therapeutic results to be achieved, has been proposed. It is expedient to reorganize the sanatorium "Red Bank" as one of the sanatorium centers of therapeutic-and-rehabilitative and differential diagnostic care to patients with ocular tuberculosis.
Subject(s)
Hospitals, Special , Tuberculosis, Ocular/therapy , Antioxidants/therapeutic use , Antitubercular Agents/administration & dosage , Antitubercular Agents/therapeutic use , Diagnosis, Differential , Glucocorticoids/therapeutic use , Hospitals, Special/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Isoniazid/administration & dosage , Isoniazid/therapeutic use , Recurrence , Time Factors , Treatment Outcome , Tuberculin Test , Tuberculosis, Ocular/diagnosis , Tuberculosis, Ocular/drug therapyABSTRACT
The outcomes of treatment of 2908 patients with ocular tuberculosis who were treated at the Vyborg-3, Krasnyi Val, and Plyos sanatoria in 1993 - 1995 are analyzed. These sanatoria used the common guide in evaluating the efficacy of treatment, namely a separate assessment of the outcomes of treatment of the underlying and concurrent diseases. There were no statistical significant differences in therapeutical efficiency at these sanatoria. Therapeutical benefits were obtained in 99.8% of patients in the active phase of the disease.
