老年肺结核已成为急需关注的社会公共卫生问题,老年肺结核不容忽视,现从中西医角度论述如下:1病因病机1.1祖国医学研究祖国医学认为,肺肾气虚,卫外不固,是本病发病之内因,外感痨虫是致病的外因,近代随着对机体免疫过程的进一步认识以及对虚证的量化研究发现,结核病患者均存在不 Elderly tuberculosis has become the urgent need of attention social and public health problems, senile tuberculosis can not be ignored, are from the perspective of traditional Chinese and Western medicine are as follows: 1 etiology and pathogenesis 1.1 The motherland medicine research The motherland medicine, lung and kidney deficiency, Wei outside the body is not solid disease is the disease Exogenous and exogenous pinworm is the pathogenic external cause, modern with the further understanding of the immune process and quantify the deficiency of evidence found that patients with tuberculosis exist