PREGNANCY AND TUBERCULOSIS: PROBLEMS AND THEIR SOLUTIONS

Abstract

The authors analyzing the data of the world literature on tuberculosis, informs that its possible effect on pregnancy and vice versa – pregnancy on the course of tuberculosis in women. The main complications of pregnancy in women suffering from tuberculosis are threatened abortion, development of placental insufficiency and non-intrauterine delay in development fetal birth newborns with low birth weight infants and children with embryotype disease, due to the embryotoxic actions of some anti-tuberculosis drugs in their incorrect assignment. In this regard, there is a need to develop a common tactic of introducing pregnant women, as from the risk groups of action also and already infected with tuberculosis in order to reduce perinatal morbidity and mortality, as well as to prevent intrauterine infection

Keywords

• infectious diseases
• tuberculosis
• pregnancy
• outcomes of pregnancy.