Mortality of tuberculosis patients during HIV-infection epidemic

HIV infection has a negative impact on the tuberculosis epidemical situation. When it is combined with tuberculosis, the mortality rate increases significantly both among patients with the newly diagnosed disease and with the disease recurrence. Since 2015, those who died of tuberculosis associated with stage 4 HIV infection are registered as deceased from HIV infection. This artificially understates the death rate from tuberculosis, conceals the structure and immediate causes of death. The aim of the paper is to study the structure of mortality in tuberculosis patients during HIV infection epidemic. Materials and Methods. The authors analyzed protocols of 87 tuberculosis patient autopsies (2012) and 107 autopsies (2017), selected by continuous sampling. Statistica 6.0 for Windows (StatSoft® Inc., USA, 2001) was used to process the results obtained. Results. The age of the deceased persons decreased and the proportion of women increased. The number of deaths form fibrous-cavernous pulmonary tuberculosis decreased by 2...