Konovalova N. Epidemiology, diagnosis, clinical course and treatment of eye lesions of tuberculosis etiology

Object: tuberculosis eye. Purpose: increase the effectiveness of diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis eye disease by improving and developing new methods based on a scientific data on epidemiology, clinical course, immunological and hemorheological disorders in the development of disease. Methods: ophthalmological, statistical. Equipment: standard ophthalmological. First reported an increased incidence of ocular tuberculosis in Ukraine since 2001. with the maximum level in 2005, and the subsequent decrease of this index by 55.5% in 2009. Contributed scientific data on eye disease that occurs in 6.6% of patients with generalized tuberculosis. For the first time according to clinical pathomorphosis found that in primary and chronic course of episcleritis, sclerites and keratitis decreased threefold and the number of iridocyclitis doubled. The method of differential diagnosis of inflammatory and degenerative diseases of the retina and the method of combined sequential and transorbital and nasal electrophoresis. Results have been implemented in Filatov Institute, Chernovytskiy, Sumsky, Chernigovsky, Nikolayevsky, Ushorodsky regional Hospital. Sphere of application - medicine, ophthalmology.