A case of bronchial asthma in a patient with long-term cough

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The regulatory documents determining the phthisiatric care for population do not provide diagnostics and treatment of comorbid somatic pathology with tuberculosis in tuberculosis dispansery. If patients with diagnosed tuberculosis or suspected tuberculosis need therapeutic specialists’ consultation, they have to be referred to the district polyclinic working in the medical insurance system. So, timeliness of diagnostics and chronic diseases management decreases. The course of tuberculosis becomes more complicated and lengthened. At the same time tuberculosis specificities are not taken in to account complicating comorbid pathology. For effective diagnostics and treatment tuberculosis and comorbid pathology the special algorithms of patient management were develop in Tuberculosis Dispensary No. 5.

AIM: To describe the clinical case of bronchial asthma in a 35 year old female patient as an example of effective interdisciplinary communication between general practitioner, phthisiatrician and specialists of therapeutic profile.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients with suspected tuberculosis are comprehensively examined by the phthisiatrician and therapeutic profile specialists according to special developed algorithms of diagnostic search at Tuberculosis Dispensary No. 5.

RESULTS: The patient with long-term cough was comprehensively examined. Within a short time tuberculosis was excluded, bronchial asthma was diagnosed. The effective treatment of asthma and a plan of further patient flow-up in the district polyclinic was recommended.

CONCLUSIONS: An experience of the interdisciplinary communication phthisiatricians and specialists of therapeutic profile who have entered the department of medical-social care and rehabilitation demonstrated the relevance and appropriateness in diagnostics of tuberculosis and concomitant chronic uninfection diseases, that let minimize risks of cross adverse effects and choose the optimal tactics of patient management.

Keywords

bronchial asthma / comorbid pathology / specialists of therapeutic profile / tuberculosis dispensary / interdisciplinary communication

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Yubrina I.V., Bozhkov I.A., Degtyareva L.N., Karostik D.V.