[Characteristics of diagnosis, clinical aspects and clinical course of tuberculosis in adolescents with concomitant diseases].

The authors present the data on special features of the course of tuberculosis in adolescents having other diverse conditions such as nonspecific pulmonary diseases and congenital abnormalities, prior acute respiratory diseases and concurrent iron deficiency anemia. The combination of tuberculosis with other diseases results in a longer course of tuberculosis with slow clinical and X-ray dynamics and in a number of cases (++prior acute respiratory diseases) in bouts of the specific process. The favourable outcomes of the disease are determined by the correct combined treatment of tuberculosis and concurrent diseases. When tuberculosis runs along with congenital abnormalities the effectiveness of treatment is achieved by surgical methods after specific chemotherapy.