[Immediate outcomes of medical therapy in patients with caseous pneumonia].

The immediate outcomes of treatment were studied in 119 patients with caseous pneumonia whose age was 20 to 64 years. In most cases, caseous pneumonia was found to preserve its classic traits by characterizing by acute onset (85.8%), prompt progression, high proportion of fatal outcomes in the early postoperative period (54.1% within 3 early postoperative months). There is an increase in cases of more "benign" course of this form of tuberculosis (subacute onset and prolonged slow progression) at the same time. The use of current methods for combined intensive antibiotic and pathogenetic therapies substantially improves the outcomes in this most severe group of patients, reduces the initiation of a phase of relative stabilization of a specific process and of cessation of bacterial isolation.