ABSTRACT
The authors studied the effects of magnetic laser therapy (MLT) on external respiration, blood transport of gas and clinical course of acute destructive pneumonia in children aged 1-12 years. It was established that energy of infrared laser combined with magnetic field reduces the severity of acute respiratory insufficiency, treatment course, prevents destructive complications in children with infiltrative acute destructive pneumonia.
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Laser Therapy , Magnetics/therapeutic use , Pneumonia/complications , Pneumonia/therapy , Respiration/radiation effects , Acute Disease , Child , Child, Preschool , Combined Modality Therapy , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Humans , Infant , Infrared Rays/therapeutic use , Pneumonia/physiopathology , Time FactorsABSTRACT
It has been established that respiratory failure in young children with destructive acute pneumonia was enhanced upon intravenous correction of homeostasis disturbances with daily physiological volume repletion. Combined enteral-parenteral correction of homeostasis disturbances was an alternative technique.
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Fluid Therapy , Pneumonia/physiopathology , Pulmonary Gas Exchange/physiology , Respiration/physiology , Acute Disease , Child , HumansABSTRACT
A study was made of the results of cytological, cytochemical (determination of the ratio of ethidium bromide extinction and NTB test) and microbiological studies of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in 125 children with acute pneumonia and 347 with chronic nonspecific inflammatory pulmonary diseases. It has been revealed that all-round studies permit defining the type and activity of endobronchitis together with the status of the ventilated alveolar tissue. Acute pneumonia is marked by catarrhal process with highly active inflammation of bacterial nature, whereas chronic nonspecific inflammatory diseases by purulent endobronchitis. In localized forms of nonspecific inflammatory pulmonary diseases, streptococci and pneumococci may be regarded as the dominant microflora.
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Bronchitis/diagnosis , Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid/pathology , Lung Abscess/diagnosis , Pneumonia/diagnosis , Staphylococcal Infections/diagnosis , Streptococcal Infections/diagnosis , Adolescent , Bronchitis/microbiology , Bronchitis/pathology , Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid/microbiology , Cell Count , Child , Child, Preschool , Humans , Infant , Leukocytes/pathology , Lung Abscess/microbiology , Lung Abscess/pathology , Macrophages/pathology , Pneumonia/microbiology , Pneumonia/pathology , Staphylococcal Infections/microbiology , Staphylococcal Infections/pathology , Staphylococcus/isolation & purification , Streptococcal Infections/microbiology , Streptococcal Infections/pathology , Streptococcus/isolation & purificationABSTRACT
The authors presented some data on possibilities of a comprehensive study of permeability of the bronchopulmonary structures, ventilation and the pulmonary-capillary blood flow of the lungs in children and adolescents using aerosol pulmobronchoscintigraphy with 99mTc-pertechnetate aerosol for which purpose a special MEDI-61 apparatus was employed for the first time. A total of 100 patients were examined, of them 25 by using 2 methods. Proceeding from an analysis of the results of the comprehensive study of children and adolescents with chronic pulmonary diseases it has been concluded that this method is objective, informative and provides exhaustive information on the state of bronchial permeability and pulmonary-capillary blood flow. The method also permits a preliminary selection of patients and substantiation of indications for administration of complex instrumental methods of investigation of the bronchial tree under narcosis.
