Alcohol and drug use disorders, HIV status and drug resistance in a sample of Russian TB patients.

Setting: Alcohol use, tuberculosis (TB) drug resistance and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk behavior are of increasing concern in Russian TB patients.

Design: A prevalence study of alcohol use and HIV risk behavior was conducted in a sample of 200 adult men and women admitted to TB hospitals in St Petersburg and Ivanovo, Russia.

Results: Of the subjects, 72% were men.

Co-morbidity of infectious and addictive diseases in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Russia.

The Russian health care system is organized around specific diseases, with relatively little focus on integration across specialties to address co-morbidities. This organizational structure presents new challenges in the context of the recent epidemics of injection drug use (IDU) and HIV. This paper uses existing and new data to examine the prevalence of reported new cases of drug dependence (heroin) and HIV over time as well as associations between drug dependence and alcoholism, hepatitis B and C, and tuberculosis in the City of St.

[Significance of tuberculosis of the large bronchi in the diagnosis and treatment of restrictive forms of pulmonary tuberculosis].

A total of 1223 new cases of restrictive forms of pulmonary tuberculosis were examined. Of them 652 and 598 patients were followed up in the period of the good (1980-1984) and poor (1997-2001) tuberculosis epidemiological situation, respectively. A comparative analysis has indicated that there has been recently a rise in the incidence of tuberculosis of main bronchi from 10.

[Post-tuberculous fibrous mediastinitis: a report of a case followed-up for many years].

The paper reports a rare case of fibrosing mediastinitis of posttuberculous genesis caused by infection with Mycobacterium bovis. Such cases are not available in the literature so far. The patient was observed from 1956 to 2001.

[The body's adaptation and responsiveness and their impact on the outcome of exudative pleuritis].

The authors studied homeostasis in 182 patients, including 126 patients with exudative pleuritis of tuberculous etiology and 56 with parapneumonic pleuritis. They determined the adaptive reactions of the body by the leukograms and the types of its responsiveness, established their relationship with other homeostatic parameters. Impaired responsiveness in patients with exudative pleuritis substantially affected the efficiency of etiotropic treatment.