[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.

[Assessment of homeostasis by body's adaptative responses in patients with tuberculous pleurisy].

The types of adaptative responses were defined, by analysing leukograms in 126 patients with tuberculous pleurisy. Assessing homeostasis by proteinograms, cellular and humoral immunity verified adaptative responses as an integral index of responsiveness. This identified 5 types of responsiveness.