ABSTRACT
The paper presents a new treatment of myocardial infarction which proved its high antiarrhythmic effectiveness in 300 MI patients followed up for 2 years. The method implies endogenous radiation of blood by He-Ne laser. Holter monitoring revealed that such radiation in the acute MI period promoted the arrest of high-grade ventricular arrhythmia more efficiency than lidocaine++ and prevented primary ventricular fibrillation. The 2-year follow-up provides evidence for a significant reduction in the occurrence of high-grade and lethal outcomes which decreased by half. In view of high occurrence of high-grade extrasystole in most decreased control subjects, this may be attributed to less frequent arrhythmic deaths. Lethal outcomes in laser therapy were reported in persistent cardiac failure, repeat myocardial damage and in presenile and senile patients.
Subject(s)
Blood/radiation effects , Cardiac Complexes, Premature/radiotherapy , Coronary Disease/complications , Laser Therapy , Ventricular Fibrillation/radiotherapy , Aged , Cardiac Complexes, Premature/etiology , Cardiac Complexes, Premature/mortality , Death, Sudden/etiology , Humans , Middle Aged , Ventricular Fibrillation/etiology , Ventricular Fibrillation/mortalityABSTRACT
Our clinical and instrumental investigations showed that invasive laser therapy has a multiple therapeutic effect. Acting favourably on principal pathogenetic mechanisms of acute myocardial infarction, it decreases the pain syndrome, normalize electrical instability of the heart, limits myocardial ischemic damage area and accelerates scarring process. It leads to a decrease in mortality and in the incidence of severe complications of myocardial infarction such as ventricular fibrillation, cardiogenic shock, cardiac insufficiency. Thus, the new method of treating acute myocardial infarction with He-Ne laser irradiation significantly enhances treatment efficacy, improves the course and prognosis of myocardial infarction.
Subject(s)
Blood/radiation effects , Laser Therapy , Myocardial Infarction/radiotherapy , Angina Pectoris/radiotherapy , Cardiac Complexes, Premature/radiotherapy , Electrocardiography , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Monitoring, Physiologic , Prognosis , Signal Processing, Computer-AssistedABSTRACT
Ventricular arrhythmias were studied by Holter's 24-hour ECG monitoring in 215 acute myocardial infarction patients within the first day of the disease. Twenty-five minutes sessions of blood irradiation by a 2-4 mW helium-neon laser (HNL) through a light guide, introduced into the right atrium via the subclavian vein, were conducted for 3-5 days in 180 patients. The HNL therapy showed a marked antiarrhythimic effect in acute myocardial infarction, significant for the prevention and treatment of ventricular arrhythmias. High antiarrhythmic activity was noted in patients with frequent ventricular extrasystoles and high-grade arrhythmias. Control patients showed no significant spontaneous reduction of the rate of ventricular arrhythmias over a comparable period of time.
