[Ways to expand indications for surgical treatment of patients with fibro-cavernous pulmonary tuberculosis].

The authors present original operative techniques developed in the Novosibirsk Tuberculosis Research Institute for management of fibro-cavernous pulmonary tuberculosis. These include: a 4-5-rib variant of osteoplastic thoracoplasty as an independent intervention and as a stage followed by pulmonary resection, atypical extrapleural pneumolysis with open tamponade followed by local thoracoplasty. A complex of combined surgical adjuvant procedures comprises extrapleural pneumolysis with open tamponade, dissection of cavernous part of the lung prior to selective thoracoplasty.

[Possibilities of the use of immobilized proteolytic enzyme immozymase in tuberculosis].

The paper summarises the experience gained in the use of immozymase in tuberculous patients to advance the disease diagnosis and treatment. Immozymase proved valuable in obtaining sputum enriched with M. tuberculosis in patients who were previously considered noncarriers.