[Implication of specialized sanatoria in the improvement of care to patients with ocular tuberculosis at the present stage].

Abstract

A total of 6230 case histories and the data of annual reports over the past 7 years were examined. A therapeutic-and-diagnostic process continues to be improved under the present-day conditions. Patients admitted to the sanatorium for the inadequately substantiated etiology of ocular tuberculosis underwent an additional differential diagnostic study. The diagnosis of tuberculosis was verified only in 31.29% of cases. The optimized procedure for etiotropic chemotherapy for patients with new-onset ocular tuberculosis has been introduced. A scheme for intensifying the treatment of recurrent ocular tuberculosis, which permits high therapeutic results to be achieved, has been proposed. It is expedient to reorganize the sanatorium "Red Bank" as one of the sanatorium centers of therapeutic-and-rehabilitative and differential diagnostic care to patients with ocular tuberculosis.

• Authors: E I Ustinova, V M Dresviannikov, S L Liapin, T I Bezrukavaia, G P Zakharenko, L N Kukushkina, N V Marinina
• Journal: Problemy tuberkuleza i boleznei legkikh (Probl Tuberk Bolezn Legk) Issue 2 Pg. 46-50 ( 2007) ISSN: 1728-2993 [Print] Russia (Federation)
• PMID: 17419336 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, English Abstract, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Antioxidants
• Antitubercular Agents
• Glucocorticoids
• Isoniazid

Topics

• Antioxidants (therapeutic use)
• Antitubercular Agents (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Glucocorticoids (therapeutic use)
• Hospitals, Special (statistics & numerical data)
• Humans
• Isoniazid (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)
• Recurrence
• Time Factors
• Treatment Outcome
• Tuberculin Test
• Tuberculosis, Ocular (diagnosis, drug therapy, therapy)