Experience in using the method of valve bronchial block in Primorsky Krai in treatment of respiratory tuberculosis in a child

Abstract

This paper presents a clinical case of destructive pulmonary tuberculosis in a child with drug resistance successfully treated using endoscopic bronchial valve therapy. In the context of the developed drug resistance to the causative agent of tuberculosis, ineffectiveness of the conducted treatment and negative radiological dynamics, the method of endoscopic bronchial valve treatment allows the patient’s condition and their clinical and radiological indicators to be improved. In the presented case, a positive X-ray dynamic was achieved in the form of closure of the decay cavity after the installation of an endobronchial valve. Following nine months, the installed endobronchial valve was removed during bronchoscopy and the continuation of chemotherapy was recommended.