PMID: 11337778May 8, 2001Paper

Rapidly progressing forms of pulmonary tuberculosis in adolescents

Problemy tuberkuleza
L I Rusakova

Abstract

Examination of 23 adolescents with rapidly progressive pulmonary tuberculosis (RPPT) discovered severe bilateral lesions in 47.8%, caverns in 91.3%, M. tuberculosis in 86.9% of the examinees. 75% of the adolescents were resistant to antituberculous treatment. RPPT in adolescents is represented mainly by infiltration pulmonary tuberculosis (78.3%), caseous pneumonia and disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis (21.7%). RPPT develops because of late diagnosis and infection with drug-resistant M. tuberculosis.

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