PubMedDate not supplied
Investigations were carried out in a group of patients serving as a rehabilitation model, considered the best and the most worth being adopted. The group was made up of 100 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, recorded during the last 5 years, recently stabilized and included in the group II of dispensary care and in the card index "surveillance", who are re-employed and work in various enterprises in the Capital; as regards the solving of these cases, they are at the opposite pole with respect to chronic patients (100 cases), with whom they are continuously put in contrast. The elements with a positive value regarding the most rapid health restoration, as well as the ways of re-employment were studied. The results of medical rehabilitation depend on the early detection of the disease, on a treatment correctly applied, on the patients' cooperation, on the chemoresistance and drug intolerance, on the presence or absence of associated non-invalidating diseases, on age (results are better in young patients), on sex, on the professional activities a.s.o. The most important causes of an unsatisfying socio-professional rehabilitation and of a partial maladjustment were related to the performance of activities in departments with various bronchopulmonary irritants, to weight lifting and carrying, to a prolonged upright posture to additional professional efforts, to the insufficient granting of the initially shorter programme a.s.o.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)