[Efficiency of surgical treatment in patients with drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis in relation to the course of a disease].
The immediate results of surgical treatment were analyzed in 225 patients with polyresistant and multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis; the process was first detected in 95 patients of them; 34 patients had recurrent tuberculosis; chronic tuberculosis was found in 93 patients. The highest clinical efficiency of surgical treatment and the least frequency of postoperative complications were determined in new cases of tuberculosis (94.9 and 20.8%, respectively). In recurrent tuberculosis, clinical efficiency was achieved in 94.1% with the frequency of complications being 29.4% and when tuberculosis was chronic, it was 93.6% with the frequency of complications being 32.2%. The optimum time of surgical interventions was defined in patients with various courses of the disease.