[Sloping posture on the unwell side for treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis combined with use of modern intensive antitubercular chemotherapy].

The action of pulmonary tuberculosis treatment with setting the patient in a sloping position on the unwell side has been discussed briefly. The results of this already historical event of the years 1957-1958 have also been presented. It was then that in spite of the imperfection of the antituberculous chemotherapy SM+INH+PAS of that time, the application of the setting in a sloping position made it possible to achieve a high percentage of very good and fast results of pulmonary tuberculosis treatment. The results were three times as good as others till then, considerably sooner than the results of chemotherapy exclusively. The precious experience in setting in a sloping position treatment is worth testing nowadays, merged with the application of intensive chemotherapy RMP+INH+PZA+EMB or SM in cases of neglected or late diagnosis of tuberculosis, or case of tuberculosis refractory to a number medicine refractory mycobacteriosis, but at that time merged with other antituberculous medicines with tested in vitro sensitivity. AIDS patients with tuberculosis infection can also have the setting in a sloping position applied, and since the moment antituberculous medicines are applied, if drug-sensitiveness has been found in inoculations, as drug-fastness frequently occurs in case of patients with AIDS.