[Surgical treatment of destructive pulmonary tuberculosis in adolescents with a severe form of diabetes mellitus]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie destruktivnogo tuberkuleza legkikh u podrostkov s tiazheloi formoi sakharnogo diabeta.

Results of surgical treatment of 7 adolescents with destructive tuberculosis of the lungs and severe diabetes mellitus are presented. It was shown that the tuberculosis process in the patients was progressive and their chemotherapy was not always efficient. The present achievements in lung surgery, anesthesiology and resuscitation provide surgical operations in such severe patients even with subcompensated diabetes and progressing pulmonary tuberculosis. Clinical recovery from tuberculosis in all the 7 adolescents was indicative of high efficiency of the surgical treatment.