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BACKGROUND: The main treatment for tuberculosis is antituberculous drugs. Low energy laser therapy is used as an adjunct to antituberculous drugs, predominantly in the former Soviet Union and India. OBJECTIVES: To assess the benefits and harms of low level laser therapy for treating tuberculosis in randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials. To seek information about potential benefits or harms from observational studies. SEARCH STRATEGY: We searched the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group specialized trials register (up to June 2001), the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register (Issue 1, 2001), MEDLINE (1966 to December 2001), EMBASE (1988 to December 2001), CINAHL (up to November 2001), PEDro (up to November 2001), the Science Citation Index (up to December 2001), National Centre for Science Information at the Indian Institute of Science (15 April 2002), electronic catalogue of the Central Medical Library (Moscow; 1988 to January 2002), the internet using 'Google' (21 January 2002), and reference lists of articles. We contacted relevant organizations and researchers. SELECTION CRITERIA: (1) Randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials comparing low level laser therapy with no low level laser therapy in people with tuberculosis. We also conducted a subsidiary analysis of of the potential benefits and harms from observational studies. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: Two reviewers independently assessed trial quality and extracted data. We contacted study authors for additional information. Adverse event information was collected from the studies. MAIN RESULTS: No randomized or quasi-randomized controlled trials met the inclusion criteria for the review. The potential benefits and harms from 29 observational studies involving over 3500 people are described. REVIEWER'S CONCLUSIONS: We have not identified any well designed trials using low level laser therapy (LLLT) to treat tuberculosis. Therefore, the use of LLLT to treat tuberculosis is not supported by reliable evidence.
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Laser Therapy , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/radiotherapy , Tuberculosis, Urogenital/radiotherapy , Urinary Bladder Diseases/radiotherapy , Humans , Lasers/adverse effects , Randomized Controlled Trials as TopicSubject(s)
Colitis, Ulcerative/drug therapy , Cyclophosphamide/therapeutic use , Adult , Colitis, Ulcerative/complications , Cyclophosphamide/administration & dosage , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/complications , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/drug therapy , Diabetic Angiopathies/complications , Diabetic Angiopathies/drug therapy , Diabetic Foot/complications , Diabetic Foot/drug therapy , Humans , Malabsorption Syndromes/complications , Malabsorption Syndromes/drug therapy , Male , RecurrenceABSTRACT
A TV unit was employed to study ciliary activity of bronchial ciliated epithelium in 53 patients with acute pneumonia (AP) at its height and in convalescence. Ciliary impairment of the epithelium is independent of AP clinical form (lobular or croupous) or of dissemination of the inflammation though is related to endobronchitis activity. The ciliary dysfunction emerged in all the patients at the height of the disease and in 65.3% of convalescents. Latent dysfunction was revealed by thermal and euphylline tests in 34.7% of the convalescents. Diagnostic criteria of ciliary dysfunction are proposed.
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Bronchi/physiopathology , Pneumonia/physiopathology , Acute Disease , Adolescent , Adult , Aminophylline , Biopsy , Bronchitis/diagnosis , Bronchitis/physiopathology , Cilia/physiology , Convalescence , Endoscopy , Epithelium/physiopathology , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Pneumonia/diagnosisABSTRACT
Three cases of foreign bodies in the bronchi, aspiration of which has gone unnoticed for the patients, are considered. In view of great diagnostic difficulties of related inflammation in atelectasis-affected sites of the lungs encountered in such cases, the study of the disease history and bronchological examination seem essential and should be detailed and comprehensive. This is especially true in torpid and atypical course of pneumonia, signs of aspiration and bronchial obstruction.
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Bronchi , Foreign Bodies/diagnosis , Aged , Bronchi/pathology , Bronchial Neoplasms/diagnosis , Bronchial Neoplasms/etiology , Bronchitis/diagnosis , Bronchitis/etiology , Cough/diagnosis , Cough/etiology , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Foreign Bodies/complications , Foreign Bodies/pathology , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Pneumonia/diagnosis , Pneumonia/etiologySubject(s)
Amyloidosis/diagnosis , Skin Diseases/diagnosis , Age Factors , Aged , Diagnosis, Differential , Ecchymosis/diagnosis , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
Blood levels of TSH, T3 and T4 were evaluated in patients suffering from aggravated chronic obstructive bronchitis (COB). Low levels of T3, T4, and T3 plus T4 were recorded in 55.4%, 13.9% and 20.8% of patients, respectively. Though TSH levels were elevated in 71.3%, its hyposecretion was present as well (in 17.8% of the examinees). The findings suggest a conclusion on a secondary, compensatory nature of hypothyroidism in COB, therefore no specific treatment is needed.
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Bronchitis/complications , Hyperpituitarism/etiology , Hypothyroidism/etiology , Lung Diseases, Obstructive/complications , Adult , Aged , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Thyrotropin/metabolism , Thyroxine/deficiency , Triiodothyronine/deficiencyABSTRACT
The article deals with the television system which registers the lash movements on the screen of TV monitor. The natural moving activity (frequency of whipping) and lashes' activity after the action of different concentration of surface-active substance Triton-H-305 and potassium chloride were investigated on the example of the epithelium of two-folding molluscum. It observes the following type of lashes reaction: unbroken (continuous) whipping, mechanically induced stopping of whipping ("stop effect"), spontaneous "stop effect", starting of whipping due to mechanic action-specific "sorting" lashes (the last are described for the first time).
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Cilia/physiology , Animals , Bivalvia/physiology , Cilia/drug effects , Crustacea/physiology , Detergents/pharmacology , Epithelium/drug effects , Epithelium/physiology , Microscopy/instrumentation , Microscopy/methods , Movement/drug effects , Movement/physiology , Octoxynol , Polyethylene Glycols/pharmacology , Potassium Chloride/pharmacology , Television/instrumentationABSTRACT
The main pathogenetic mechanisms and morphological picture of chronic asthmatic bronchitis are similar to those of bronchial asthma. The only difference is the absence of regular fits of asphyxia. Diagnosis of this disease is based upon the detection of the broncho-obstructive syndrome and verification of its allergic origin. Therapy of chronic asthmatic bronchitis is based on the same principles as that of bronchial asthma.
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Asthma/diagnosis , Bronchitis/diagnosis , Adult , Aged , Asthma/drug therapy , Asthma/etiology , Bronchi/physiopathology , Bronchitis/drug therapy , Bronchitis/etiology , Chronic Disease , Eosinophils/pathology , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Respiratory Function Tests , Sputum/cytologySubject(s)
Arrhythmias, Cardiac/etiology , Asthma/complications , Adult , Aged , Female , Humans , Male , Middle AgedABSTRACT
A parallel study of the activity of serum cholinesterase and excretion of cyclic guanosine monophosphate made it possible to distinguish 3 types of disorders of cholinergic regulation in exacerbation of bronchial asthma: cholinergic compensation, subcompensation and decompensation. The nature of correlations of the degree of disturbance of cholinergic regulation, intensity of allergic reaction and its type was established. The role and place of the choline blocking agents in multiple modality therapy of bronchial asthma were defined.
