[Clinical assessment of modified segmental tuberculin test in infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis and community-acquired pneumonia].

The atypical course of pneumonias (without significant intoxication and bronchopulmonary syndromes) is now notified and the incidence of nonspecific changes in the lower lung has increased. The authors propose to use a modified segmental tuberculin test in the differential diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia and pulmonary tuberculosis. This test has revealed that in community-acquired pneumonia, the average sizes of papules do not differ in the bilateral suprascapular regions and they are significantly less than on the fore-arm when the Mantoux test with 2TE whereas in infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis, the largest papules are recorded above a specific inflammatory focus and their size is larger than that on the intact side and forearm.

[Social and medical problems of tuberculosis in the Ukraine].

The paper gives a brief analysis of the existing social and medical problems and factors, which determine poor trends in the development of the tuberculosis epidemic situation in the Ukraine.

[Efficiency treatment of new cases of destructive pulmonary tuberculosis in the presence of concurrent iron deficiency anemia].

A hundred and twenty nine new cases of destructive pulmonary tuberculosis were examined. Of them, 95 patients were diagnosed as having first-degree iron deficiency anemia. Anemia was found to have a negative impact on the clinical efficiency of therapeutical measures.

[Sertraline in child and adolescent psychiatry].

The aim of the study was to research the efficiency of sertraline (zoloft) in depressions, anxious states and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Diagnosis of the mental disorders was carried out according to ICD-10. 72 children (59 boys, 13 girls) aged 6-18 years were treated.

[Asthenic disorders in sailors during long sea voyages].

The peculiarities of asthenic disorders formation in sailors under long-lasting sail were shown to depend on prevalent extremal factors. Clinico-psychopathological and psychological investigation allowed the author to single out 4 groups of asthenia (psychogenic, psychosomatic+, somatogenic and cerebrogenic). Nonpathological premorbid and morbid variants are described with the course of their psychological and autonomic indices.