[Clinical and X-ray characteristics of tuberculosis in adults and children and reasons for its late detection].

The authors' findings suggest that the clinical pattern of tuberculosis morbidity in adults and children has recently become worse. Severe caseous pneumonia with its acute onset and malignant course by the type of galloping consumption with massive bacterial isolation and deaths in 42.8% of cases was analyzed.

[The diagnostic value of serological studies in the clinical picture of tuberculosis].

Circulating antituberculous antibodies in the sera from 89 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and 11 patients with tumors and nonspecific inflammation in the lungs were evaluated using indirect hemagglutination and enzyme immunoassay. Specific antibodies were detected in 81.6 and 30% of tuberculous and nontuberculous patients, respectively.

[Chronic cor pulmonale in pulmonary tuberculosis and its treatment].

New data on the pathogenesis of chronic cor pulmonale were obtained. The reduction of pulmonary capillaries at the site of the tuberculosis process beyond this site was found to contribute much to the development of pulmonary artery hypertension. Irreversible injuries to the vessels are due to both the pneumosclerotic changes and the specific circulating immune complexes (CIC) effects.