PECULIARITIES OF MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS ON THE BACKGROUND OF IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS (A CLINICAL CASE REPORT)
Objective - familiarization of practitioners with the peculiarities of pulmonary multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDRT) in a patient with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) resulted from a long exposure to environmental factors at the workplace. Materials and methods. The article deals with a clinical case of own observation of pulmonary MDRT development in a patient with IPF. The patient was hospitalized in the Pulmonary Tuberculosis Department No 3 (Department of Resistant Tuberculosis) of the Clinical Site of Phthisiology and Pulmonology Department of Zaporizhizhia State Medical Univercity in the CI “Zaporizhzhia Regional Tuberculosis Clinical Dispensary”. Results. Patient: male, 41 years, no medical history of tuberculosis. His work was associated with a harmful environmental factor within 7 years: dust in the workplace (refueling and repair of powder-type fire extinguishers). After 3 weeks of inpatient treatment, the patient died. The presented clinical case demonstrates the complexity of a life-time IPF diagnosis, which progression provoked the development of an equally serious disease, such as multi-resistant disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis and the prescription of antimycobacterial therapy. The cause of death was a progressive pulmonary fibrosis, and as a result, a progressively worsening pulmonary heart disease. Conclusions. Practitioners should be especially vigilant and attentive while dealing with a patient having a history of harmful environmental factors exposure that may cause IPF development. It must be borne in mind that IPF may be asymptomatic for a long time resulting in increased risk for developing tuberculosis. This case confirms the literature data that the development of pulmonary MDRT in patients with untreated IPF leads to a rapid fatal outcome in the vast majority of cases (in this case it was 3 weeks).