[Characteristics of pneumonia in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis].

In healed tuberculosis, pneumonia more frequently arises in the zones of pronounced residual changes. In active tuberculosis combination of tuberculosis with pneumonia often takes place in intact bronchopulmonary segments. Pneumonia in tuberculous patients takes a lingering course in the presence of pneumosclerotic changes in the lungs, tends to acquire bronchial forms, is characterized by slow involution of inflammation, runs atypically in combination of pneumosclerotic changes in the lungs, bronchial stenoses and abnormal cell composition of bronchoalveolar washout.

[Bronchopulmonary aspergillosis].

Case histories of 510 patients operated on for chronic destructive pulmonary tuberculosis and mycetoma are analyzed, as are the findings of examinations of 56 patients with cavitary forms of lung involvement (mostly cavernous and fibrocavernous tuberculosis), whose resected lung and bronchial specimens were inoculated to detect the fungi. X-Ray and tomographic examinations were carried out according to the routine methods. Blood serum IgG antibodies to aspergillosis antigen were determined in the enzyme immunoassay.

[Causes of formation of destructive tuberculosis of the lungs].

It was shown that irregular fluorographic examinations, undetected pathological processes on fluorograms and their erroneous interpretation were the causes of destructive tuberculosis of the lung. Early detection of tuberculosis was hampered by prior nonspecific diseases of the respiratory organs and underestimation of the process activity especially when chronic bronchopulmonary diseases were associated with residual signs of cured tuberculosis. Recommendations for prophylaxis of destructive tuberculosis of the lung are presented.