Hematological indicators for lung damage caused by COVID-19 infection.

During the pandemic of a new coronavirus infection one of the most serious complications is pneumonia. When entering a specialized pulmonology Department, the presence of pneumonia is confirmed by computed tomography (CT), the etiology is confirmed by the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA by PCR, the article analyzes the indicators of blood analysis when patients are admitted to the hospital. All admitted patients were divided into 2 groups.

[The clinical and epidemic characteristics of new-onset tuberculosis in relation to the procedure of detection].

The outpatient cards and case histories of 456 patients with tuberculosis detected in Samara in the period from January 1, 1999 to December 31, 2003 were examined. Tuberculosis was identified in 58.3% of the patients when they were asking for medical aid; among them 54.

[Specific features of detection of caseous pneumonia and its course in Samara].

A hundred and sixty-three cases of caseous pneumonia were analyzed in Samara. Males aged 35 to 60 years were most frequently ill with the pneumonia; the unemployed and those who had not undergone CC-fluorography for more than 2 years were more frequently ill. The lesion was more commonly bilateral, involving 3 lobes or more with multiple lung tissue destruction.

Risk factors for mortality among adult patients with newly diagnosed tuberculosis in Samara, Russia.

Setting: Five out-patient tuberculosis (TB) clinics and one in-patient TB hospital in Samara, Russia.

Objective: To identify predictors of all-cause mortality among patients with newly diagnosed TB.

Design: A retrospective case-control study of adult TB cases registered over a 5-year period from 1999 to 2003 using multivariate logistic regression modeling.

[Individual tuberculin diagnosis by the prick test].

The graded dermal tuberculin test, as described by N. N. Grinchar-Karpilovsky, which is carried out using 100%, 25%, 5%, and 1% tuberculin solution, is most commonly used for individual tuberculin diagnosis.