Abstract
Endoscopic study with gastrocamera and other clinical examination were carried out in order to investigate in 35 patients who had had the gastric complaints as the side effect of antituberculous drugs for a long time.
The results obtained in the present investigation can be summarized as follows.
1) In the endoscopic study, the findings of gastritis were obtained in 30 of 35 patients (86%).
2) It was concluded that the types of chronic gastritis were most correlated with the kinds of antituberculous drugs, and relatively with the types of pulmonary tuberculosis.
3) There were, unexpectedly, findings of slight gastritis in the patients treated with PAS except normal findings in 30%, although they had severe gastric complaints.
4) It was observed, that there were findings of slight atrophic gastritis in the great number of patients treated with sufanilamide, and findings of standard or advanced superficial gastritis in the group of 1314 TH.
