[Roncoleukin in enhancing the efficiency of complex therapy for infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis in adolescents]

Seventy-eight patients, aged 15.69 +/- 0.15 years, who had infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis, were examined. Roncoleukin was given intravenously in 20 patients of them (Subgroup 1a), in an indirect lymphotropic fashion in 30 patients (Subgroup 1b); 28 adolescents were treated with the conventional treatments (Group 2). A decay phase was recorded in 33 (66%) from Group 1 and in 16 (57.1%) from Group 2. On admission, all 78 (100%) patients had immunological disorders that required immunomodulation. Roncoleukin caused positive clinical and X-ray changes that were more pronounced in Subgroup 1b: bacterial excretion cessation was recorded in 100% of patients in Subgroup 1a (p < 0.05); in 94.4% in Subgroup 1b (p < 0.05), and in 68.7% in Group 2; decay cavities closed in 69.2, 60, and 37.5% in Subgroups 1a and 1b and Group 2. At the same time, the duration of a procedure considerably reduced, which positively affected adolescents' compliance.