[The attitude of pulmonary tuberculosis patients towards treatment, a factor in the efficacy of chemotherapy].

The paper reports on the efficiency at the first treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis chemotherapy in a homogeneous group of 124 bacillary men, belonging to the territory of the Tb out-patient clinic no. 2, all admitted in the Galaţi Hospital of pulmonary diseases, between 1985 and 1986. This group was divided into 4 subgroups, as a function of the degree of participation to chemotherapy (intermittent treatment 2/7 intensive, for a short period-6 months), i.

[Cured chronic pulmonary tuberculosis].

The application of RMP and EMB in the treatment of chronic tuberculosis results in massive and durable sputum conversion, objectivated by the decreased prevalence of chronic cases and increase in the number of cured chronic patients, which impose a differentiated type of dispensarization. The presence of the post-tuberculous syndrome requires qualified pneumological assistance; the authors suggest that cured chronic patients be maintained in a supervised group for the rest of their lives. The cured chronic patient with tuberculosis should remain the major preoccupation of the anti-tuberculous dispensary, in the frame of the ambulatory pneumological assistance.