[Value of scanning electron microscopy in evaluation of peripheral red blood cells shape in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis for treatment effectiveness evaluation].

The morphology of red blood cells in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis was studied by scanning electron microscopy during enterosorption. The use of an enterosorbent caused a significant decrease in the count of abnormally changed cell elements and an increase in normocytes, which suggests that detoxification has a stimulating effect. Enterosorption promotes less content of altered peripheral red blood cells, which leads to improvement of its cellular composition in the presence of clinical manifestations of the decreased rate of a tuberculous process in the lung and which is suggestive of the detoxifying impact of this treatment.