[Analysis of mortality rates among patients with pulmonary tuberculosis].

The outpatient medical cards and history cases of those who died, autopsy protocols of 428 dead patients with various forms of tuberculosis were analyzed. Of them, 86 patients had been followed up less than a year. The patients treated with antituberculous drugs died not only from a progressive specific process, but from nonspecific complications. The factors predisposing to death were late detection of tuberculosis and irregular treatment, alcohol and drug abuse.