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  • Title: [Immunotherapy in the combined treatment of chronic destructive pulmonary tuberculosis].
    Author: Ivanova LA.
    Journal: Probl Tuberk; 1994; (3):16-9. PubMed ID: 7937662.
    Abstract:
    The paper provides the results of treatment of chronic pulmonary tuberculosis patients by using immunoactive drugs (thymalin and T-activin) and prednisolone, which has been performed by monitoring immunological parameters. The patients with fibrous and cavernous tuberculosis display a combination of antituberculous antibody hyperproduction and specific cell-mediated response inhibition. Immunological hormone therapy allows normalization of the immunological status (an increase in the count and functional activity of T-lymphocytes) and relative stabilization of the process with cessation of bacterial isolation in shorter periods than in the controls, which is favourable to the reduction in hospital treatment periods.
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