[Lung involvement in patients with secondary immunodeficiency states]

The period of last years was marked by an increasing number of patients with secondary immunodeficiencies who have also got a diagnosis of various lung pathology (bacterial pneumonia is more frequent, however protozoan, fungal, viral, tuberculous and malignant affections of lungs also are not unusual). Diagnostics and treatment of such affections require a considerable improvement. These were the goals of clinic data analysis and pathologicoanatomic studies. The article gives the systematization of lung affections and stresses the peculiarities in diagnostics and treatment of patients with lung affections on the background of secondary immunodeficiencies.