Causes of ineffective chemotherapy of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with diabetes mellitus
Voloshyn, I.M.; Kovalenchenko, V.F.; Podhaievs'kyĭ, S.H.
Klinichna Khirurhiia 8: 20-21
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2130 PMID: 10584490 Document Number: 509066
The causes of unsatisfactory result of treatment in 125 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus (DM) are presented. In every patient were revealed 2-4 and more nonfavourable factors, influencing the chemotherapy inefficacy. The main of them are: the severity of the DM course and of its complications, the patient's noncompliance of the treatment, the spreading of tuberculosis, the resistance of the tuberculosis Mycobacterium to preparations.