[Anatomicoclinical study of fatal cases of pulmonary tuberculosis at the Institute of Phthisiology in 1976-1986 (a preliminary study)].

Abstract

The paper reports on 95 cases of treated pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis, deceased during 10 years. In 46 of them necropsy was made. Anatomoclinical examination confirmed in 5 cases pulmonary tuberculosis and intravital neglected tuberculosis in 4 cases. Advanced forms of the disease were found at case-finding in 2/3 of the cases, this explaining the death before the treatment action. Only in 70.5% of cases the cause of death was tuberculosis, in the rest it was due to associated affection. In about half of the cases (47.4% the patients' age was over 60.