[Surgical treatment of patients with multi-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis--case reports]

Author(s): Michalowska-Mitczuk D, Kus J

Affiliation(s): I Kliniki Gruzlicy i Chorob Pluc Instytutu Gruzlicy, Warszawie.

Publication date & source: 1997, Pneumonol Alergol Pol., 65(3-4):249-53.

Publication type: Case Reports

Two patients with multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis were surgically treated after 3 and 7 years of unsuccessful chemotherapy. There was pneumonectomy in one case and lobectomy with segmentectomy in the second. Pneumonectomy was complicated by bronchopleural fistula. Both patients become sputum culture negative after surgical treatment but first patient died 5 months after surgery because of acute hepatitis.