[Sociomedical factors influencing mortality in patients with tuberculosis]. 
The paper presents a clinical and social characterization of patients (n = 747) who died from tuberculosis in Volgograd during 2000-2002 on the basis of an analysis of all fatal cases.  The sociomedical factors influencing the mortality of patients with tuberculosis have been determined and the sociomedical portrait of a patient with tuberculosis has been created.