TUBERCULOSIS IN PREGNANT WOMEN AND THE POSTNATAL PERIOD-PECULIARITIES OF EARLY DIAGNOSIS, ITS COURSE, AND TREATMENT
Keywords:
pregnancy and tuberculosis, postpartum period, laboratory diagnostics, early diagnostics, mycobacteria of tuberculosis, exacerbation and relapse of tuberculosis, POP doctors, narrow specialists, tuberculosis of respiratory organs, extrapulmonary tuberculosis.Abstract
This study analyzes the ways of early diagnosis of tuberculosis in women of fertile age; in pregnant women with tuberculosis and in their postnatal period. The peculiarities of tuberculosis diagnostics, the course of its treatment during the pregnancy, and the principles of treatment specific at this stage, the outcome of the disease for both the mother and the child, the importance of knowing the risk factors for tuberculosis are specified. In this study, one of the factors of low tuberculosis detection during pregnancy may be the peculiarities of the course of pregnancy with toxicosis and some other circumstances (alertness of primary physicians and gynecologists, presence of internal and external discrimination in case of tuberculosis). Situations and cases of different forms of tuberculosis, both during pregnancy and in the postnatal period, are analyzed. The golden standard is defined for the prevention of tuberculosis in women of childbearing age, which is screening with fluorography. A key issues of tuberculosis in women are their family planning, training in contraceptive types, and methods.
