Medical Care for Tuberculosis-HIV-Coinfected Patients in Russia with Respect to a Changeable Patients' Structure.

To date, tuberculosis (TB) remains the primary cause of mortality in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients in Russia. Since the beginning of 2000, a sharp change in the HIV patients' structure, to the main known risk factors for HIV infection has taken place in Russia. The transmission of HIV through injectable drug use has begun to decline significantly, giving way to the prevalence of sexual HIV transmission today.

[Surgical collapse in the treatment of single lung tuberculosis].

Objective: To improve the treatment of destructive tuberculosis of a single lung by using of collapse surgery.

Material And Methods: The authors analyzed an experience of collapse surgery for destructive tuberculosis of a single lung.

Results: Collapse surgery was effective in 77.