[Tisamide in the complex treatment of tuberculosis]

The outcomes of tisamid treatment of newly diagnosed patients with bacillary pulmonary tuberculosis were analysed. To estimate the efficacy of tisamid and its administration indications, chemotherapy of the patients was performed with the use of two therapeutic regimens. Isoniazid, rifampicin and streptomycin (or ethambutol) were given to 73 patients, while other 72 ones were treated with the same drugs plus tisamid. The patients in each group were subdivided into slow, rapid and homozygotic (the most rapid) acetylators. Tisamid, when prescribed to newly-discovered patients with destructive tuberculosis, accelerates recovery, by excluding the risk of a hepatotoxic action. Tisamid in a combined treatment with isoniazid, rifampicin and streptomycin is mostly recommended for patients with a rapid acetylation phenotype, i.e. the cases for whom a short-term chemotherapy is possible.