[Characteristics of chemotherapy of pulmonary tuberculosis and its effectiveness in patients with diabetes mellitus].

Assessment of tolerance to drug preparations and the effectiveness of this therapy in patients with tuberculosis and concurrent diabetes mellitus and with liver abnormality has shown a certain similarity between them, which consists in the fact that these patients were more often given non-conventional combinations of drugs than patients having no combined pathology. The initial regimen of chemotherapy was changed due to a poor tolerance of drug preparations. Prescription of Essentiale in this case to patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus is conducive to decline in severity of the adverse reactions to drugs and makes it possible to increase chemotherapy effectiveness.