[The role of residual changes of the lungs after cured tuberculosis in severe somatic diseases].

Clinical, x-ray, morphological and microbiological findings have been analyzed for 106 patients who died at hospitals of severe somatic diseases. The data have been obtained on the incidence of residual effects of healed tuberculosis, that of recurrences of the specific process and isolation of L-transformed agents from the residual foci. This evidence supports the assumption that severe somatic diseases mask subclinical activity of residual tuberculosis.