Mini-invasive resection and collapse therapy in patients with bilateral pulmonary tuberculosis.

Collapse Therapy of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Basal metabolism in pulmonary tuberculosis patients under collapse therapy.

On the basis of 567 determinations of the basal metabolic rate performed on 394 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis it was found in a previous publication’ that there was a tendency to a low basal metabolic rate in these patients. Furthermore it was noted that in tuberculous patients the basal metabolic rate usually showed a tendency to decrease when they were on bed rest and under collapse th...

Pulmonary resection in mental patients with tuberculosis.

In institutions for the mentally ill active tuberculosis occurs with dismaying frequency. Twenty-seven to 40 cases have been found per thousand examinations and the death rate due to tuberculosis in such hospitals is 19 times the death rate due to this disease in the general population.8 The disease threatens every inmate of these crowded hospitals and there is, in addition, a more general mena...

Surgical collapse therapy in pulmonary tuberculosis.

Collapse therapy (medical) in pulmonary tuberculosis.

Whatever the exact mechanism involved in the various measures embraced by the term ' collapse therapy' for pulmonary tuberculosis, a feature common to them all is the reduction in volume of the diseased portion of lung. There is ample evidence that the resultant relaxation is beneficial and conducive to healing. Yet, even before the advent of chemotherapy and the progress in thoracic surgery wh...