[Plasmapheresis in the complex treatment of patients with acutely progressive pulmonary tuberculosis].

The efficiency of plasmapheresis versus routine methods of detoxification in the complex treatment was compared in 100 patients with acutely progressive pulmonary tuberculosis. After 2 and 4 months, plasmapheresis was found to arrest the intoxication syndrome in 56 and 100% of the patients, respectively. This treatment in these patients resulted in ceased bacterial isolation in 52% of the patients following 2 months and lung cavern closure in 36% of cases after 6 months.

[Experience in joint activities of the Central Research Institute of Tuberculosis, USSR Ministry of Health, with therapeutic-preventive institutions of a Kazakhstan rural area].

The joint activity of the Institute staff together with local health institutions has favoured qualified tuberculosis care to become more accessible to the rural population. Favourable changes in the epidemiological situation have been registered in a high tuberculosis incidence area.