Lung diseases in called-up aged patients

Abstract

A problem of lung pathology in called up aged men notwithstanding its great significance has not been studied completely. Four hundred outpatients of the Saratov Pulmonary Center were recruited to this investigation. Of them, 243, or 60.7 %, patients of called up age and younger were admitted by military registration offices. Sixty patients (15 %) more of the same age were admitted to the clinic by city outpatient departments for treatment. Asthma prevailed at the nosology structure of lung diseases in the called up aged patients (90.1 %); chronic obstructive bronchitis (COB) (4.5 %) and chronic non obstructive bronchitis (CNOB) (2.9 %) were rarer. Most of the patients (91.4 %) were in stable condition. Of the patients admitted by the outpatient departments, asthma and COB also predominated but 63.4 % of them had acute exacerbations. Such situation apparently reflects different motivations of admission to a hospital in these patient groups (expert evaluation or conventional diagnosis and treatment). Preliminary diagnosis of the military registration offices was mostly confirmed. The diagnosis was changed in 10 % of the cases demonstrating under estimation or overestimation of asthma and COB, 30 % of the patients needed the diagnosis to be verified. The collective "portrait" of a called up aged man is the following: a student of 17 years old with stable intermittent or mild persistent asthma, rarer mild COB, with no lung function disorders, low blood eosinophil number, regular pollinosis, not requiring therapy.