[The clinical efficacy of treating patients with nonspecific lung diseases using low-energy laser irradiation and intrapulmonary drug administration].

Abstract

Intrapulmonary administration of glucocorticosteroids and antibiotics combined with low-energy laser radiation was employed in the treatment of patients with infection-dependent bronchial asthma in the phase of exacerbation and frequent asphyxia attacks, long medical history and of patients with lung abscesses. The purpose of the work was to study and compare the clinical effectiveness of the method in the gravest group of patients suffering from nonspecific pulmonary diseases: suppurative (acute lung abscess) and infectious allergic (infection-dependent bronchial asthma of medium gravity with frequent attacks, long medical history, tendency towards aggravation of the status and low efficacy of broncholytics). The results of the treatment and follow-up have shown that the use of the combined treatment suggested is most optimal in patients with acute lung abscesses (the percentage of the cured is 94.1). In patients with infection-dependent bronchial asthma, the use of laser therapy combined with intrapulmonary administration of steroids also noticeably improved the clinical, functional and immunological characteristics, prolonged the phase of remission.

• Authors: V M Provotorov, P E Chesnokov, S I Kuznetsov
• Journal: Terapevticheskii arkhiv (Ter Arkh) Vol. 63 Issue 12 Pg. 18-23 ( 1991) ISSN: 0040-3660 [Print] Russia (Federation)
• Vernacular Title: Klinicheskaia éffektivnost' lecheniia bol'nykh nespetsificheskimi zabolevaniiami legkikh s primeneniem nizkoénergeticheskogo lazernogo oblucheniia i intrapul'monal'nogo vvedeniia lekarstvennykh veshchestv.
• PMID: 1803593 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, English Abstract, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Anti-Bacterial Agents
• Glucocorticoids

Topics

• Administration, Inhalation
• Anti-Bacterial Agents (administration & dosage)
• Antibody Formation (drug effects, immunology, radiation effects)
• Asthma (immunology, therapy)
• Combined Modality Therapy
• Drug Therapy, Combination
• Evaluation Studies as Topic
• Glucocorticoids (administration & dosage)
• Humans
• Immunity, Cellular (drug effects, immunology, radiation effects)
• Laser Therapy
• Lung Abscess (immunology, therapy)
• Lung Diseases (immunology, therapy)
• Time Factors