Treatment of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, alcohol abuse

We analyzed 109 case histories of patients with destructive forms of pulmonary tuberculosis for 1970-1971. 47 of them (1st group), according to observations of medical personnel and data from medical records, during the main course of treatment abused alcohol. 9 people were registered in a neuropsychiatric dispensary for alcoholism, many of them had an increased tolerance to alcohol, withdrawal symptoms, and alcohol-type personality degradation. Some patients led an asocial lifestyle: they lost their family, often changed their place of work, etc. In this group, 15 people. there was focal pulmonary tuberculosis, in 29 - infiltrative and in 3 - disseminated.