[The evaluation of pulmonary tuberculosis patients enrolled to Eskisehir Deliklitas Tuberculosis Control Dispensary].

Tuberculosis is an important public health problem in our country. Tuberculosis Control Dispensary has been important role in tuberculosis control programme. In this study we retrospectively evaluate 891 pulmonary tuberculosis patients who registered in Eskişehir Deliklitaş Tuberculosis Control Dispensary between January 1990 and June 2000. The mean age was 38.9 +/- 15.7 years, 159 (18.3%) patients were female, 710 (81.7%) patients were male. The most common symptom was cough (88.7%). 81 percent of patients have been found by examination of symptomatic people while 6.4 percent of them by examination of close contacts. 26.5 percent of patients had close contacts with tuberculosis patients. The scares of BCG vaccine has been recorded 63.6% of the patients and 80.3% percent of them had at least one scare, tuberculin skin test result has been recorded in 49.6% percent of patients. Cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis was a diagnosed of 27.7%. The sputum examination and culture for acid resistant basil has been performed 89.1% of the patients, 389 (50.2%) of patients had acid fast bacillus in sputum and 548 (70.8%) of patients had culture positivity. 80.3 percent of the patients has completed regularly their treatments (mean duration 10.4 +/- 2.6 months). The mortality rate was 5.8%.