[The exclusively outpatient treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis under the conditions in Romania].

In order to demonstrate the possibility of an exclusively outpatient treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in the present conditions in our country, a study was performed on 140 cases in Bucharest. The admission criteria were as follows: sputum negative patients (M-C-); paubacillary cases, sputum positive only in culture (M-C+); Tb pleuritis; patients refusing hospitalization, regardless their bacteriological status, and sputum positive cases also at smear examination (M+C+), if they had no household contacts under 20 years of age or with a good social economic standard of life. The patients were given the intensive chemotherapy regimen HSRZ 2/7 for 6 months, that was prolonged to 9 months in specified cases.

[The recovery of work capacity within the framework of short-term antitubercular chemotherapy].

The authors compare the results of chemotherapy reflected in the proportion of recoveries of work capacity and the number of retired persons in two groups of patients--one including 102 cases treated between 1970 and 1971 by a 3/6 regimen, and another one including 91 patients treated in 1986 by a modern intensive 3 + 3 regimen. The data indicate better results with the 1986 lot as compared with the 1970-1971 lot. In the 1986 group there were no fatalities and the persons that recovered their work capacity represented 90.