[Specific features of therapeutical and diagnostic process at the Vyborg-3 sanatorium under present day socioeconomic conditions].

The Vyborg-3 republican sanatorium is intended to serve 210 patients with ocular tuberculosis. A total of 2521 histories of patients admitted to the sanatorium from different regions of the country were examined. A fourth of the patients needed differential diagnostic studies. In 9% of patients, the tuberculous etiology of eye diseases was excluded. Patients with hematogenic severe and complicated ocular tuberculosis are prevalent every year. The proportion of complicated forms of ocular tuberculosis (cataract, retinal lesions, uveal glaucoma, fibrosis of the vitreous body) is 28%. Therapeutical efficiency in the underlying disease is 92%.