Difficulties of Diagnosis and Treatment of Drug-Resistant Forms of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Abstract

an analysis of survey data was carried out on 152 patients with drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis who received inpatient treatment at the Bukhara Regional Center for Phthisiology and Pulmonology in the period 2016 - 2019. The age of the patients ranged from 19 to 79 years, the average age was 62.8 years. In men, the disease was 2.0 times more common, and 73.0% of patients were over 50 years of age. In comparative analyses, it was noted that the disease was more common in the rural population - in 110 (72.4%) cases, and in urban populations this figure was 42 (27.6%). It should be noted that in 23 (15.1%) cases the patients were secondary. Infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis was common - in 143 (94.0%) patients, an advanced form - fibrous-cavernous form of tuberculosis - in 3 (2.0%) cases, and an early form of focal pulmonary TB was observed in 3 (2.0%) cases.