[The influence of comorbidities on treatment outcomes in patients with tuberculosis].

Aim: To study the association of comorbidities and treatment outcomes in tuberculosis (TB) patients.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective study includes all TB patients aged 18 years and older registered for treatment in Moscow in period 2021 the end of the 3rd quarter of 2022 using data of regional epidemiological TB monitoring system, a total of 3039 patients. The frequency and spectrum of comorbidities, its impact on the risk of adverse treatment outcome (ATO) and mortality using univariate and regression analysis were assessed.

Etiology and severity features of acute pancreatitis in HIV-positive patients with different immune status.

Objectives: Acute pancreatitis is common in HIV-infected patients; however, the causes and severity of pancreatitis in HIV-positive patients have a number of significant features that affect both the severity of destruction of the pancreas and the methods of diagnosis and treatment.

Material And Methods: Anamnestic data, results of diagnosis and treatment of two groups of patients with acute pancreatitis were analyzed. The first group included 79 patients with acute pancreatitis combined with HIV infection who were admitted to the clinic for the period from 2017 to 2021.

Taxometric evidence for a dimensional latent structure of hypnotic suggestibility.

Hypnotic suggestibility denotes a capacity to respond to direct verbal suggestions in an involuntary manner. Most research on responsiveness to hypnotic suggestions has focused on highly suggestible individuals but it remains unclear whether these individuals constitute a discrete subgroup (taxon) characterized by a distinct mode of responding from the remainder of the population or whether hypnotic suggestibility is better modelled as a dimensional ability. In this study, we applied taxometric analysis, a method for distinguishing between dimensional and categorical models of a psychological ability, to behavioural and involuntariness subscale scores of the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale: Form A (HGSHS:A) in a non-clinical sample (N = 584).

[The treatment of tuberculosis under current conditions].

Aim: Study of the current state of problems of treatment of patients with tuberculosis based on literature data and their own experience.

Materials And Methods: In the Russian Federation, the number and proportion of patients with co-infection with HIV/tuberculosis continues to increase against the background of improvement in the main epidemiological indicants for tuberculosis. In 2017, 20.

[Tuberculous abdominal cocoon as a rare variant of peritonitis].

Objective: To study and systematize clinical symptoms of tuberculous perivisceritis, to clarify diagnostic value of laboratory and instrumental survey in these patients and to identify the features of surgical treatment.

Material And Methods: There were 8 patients with tuberculous perivisceritis. Examination included computed tomography of the abdominal cavity and chest, ultrasound, laparoscopy.