[Correction of pulmonary moisture exhalation in patients with tuberculosis of the respiratory organs].

It has been found out that in patients with tuberculosis of the respiratory organs the moisture-discharging function of the lungs is impaired, its degree resting with the clinical form of tuberculosis, site, extension, and phase of the process. In patients with disseminated tuberculosis in the phase of infiltration and in those with infiltrative tuberculosis, moisture discharge copious whereas in patients with chronic forms of tuberculosis it is meagre. In those patients presenting with freshly detected forms of tuberculosis the proposed method involving inhalations with broncholytic mixture and glucocorticoids designed to correct the impaired moisture-discharging function of the lungs has been shown to return the pulmonary moisture discharge back to normal one month earlier than in controls. There was but insignificant improvement in the moisture-discharging function of the lungs in those patients presenting with chronic forms of tuberculosis secondary to a profound fibrosis and reduction of the pulmonary circulation vascular bed.