New approaches to prophylactic radiological examinations in the active detection of tuberculosis and non-respiratory diseases in the current conditions

Abstract

Prophylactic radiological examinations were performed on the population of 54893 people from risk groups and increased vigilance for tuberculosis in different administrative territories of the Republic of Moldova. The structure of the medico-social unfavorable factors in 18223 persons was evaluated. Out of 357 patients with evolutionary pulmonary tuberculosis, with prophylactic purpose, 176 patients were detected, most of them in 95 or 54.0% cases — within this project with the mobile digital radiodiagnostic complexes shipped to different administrative territories of the Republic of Moldova