(XII) Congress of phthisiatricians. Vol 76, No 3 (1995)

II (XII) congress of phthisiatricians was held under the auspices of the Scientific and Medical Association of phthisiatricians (NMAF, Moscow). It was attended by more than 300 doctors and scientists from Russia, guests from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine and other CIS countries, representatives of WHO. The forum was held at a time when the epidemiological situation of tuberculosis is deteriorating all over the world, when the problem of child mortality from tuberculosis reappears, and the number of fulminant and malignant forms of consumption is increasing. The director of the Central Research Institute of Tuberculosis of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences A. G. Khomenko presided over the congress; Head of the Department of Phthisiopulmonology of the Saratov Medical University prof. L. B. Khudzik, known for her work on hemorrhagic complications of tuberculosis.