[Efficacy of low intensity laser irradiation and sodium nedocromil in the complex treatment of patients with bronchial asthma]. / Effektivnost' nizkointensivnogo lazernogo izlucheniia i nedokromila natriia pri kompleksnom lechenii bol'nykh bronkhial'noi astmoi.

AIM: To study efficiency of low-intensity laser radiation (LILR) and sodium nedokromil (tailed) in combined treatment of bronchial asthma (BA). MATERIAL AND METHODS: The choice of the treatment depended on the activity of bronchial inflammation and the presence of contraindications. Laser was used on the skin in the area of the lung and great vessels projection, endobronchially. Tailed was given in inhalations and irrigations of the tracheobronchial tree during therapeutic fibrobronchoscopy. These methods were used in combined treatment of 220 BA patients. RESULTS: Combined use of LILR and tailed proved highly effective and safe in BA. Cytological markers of cell reactions of the bronchopulmonary system on the action of LILR were revealed. CONCLUSION: Availability, good reproducability, cost-effect efficacy and safety make LILR one of the most beneficial nonpharmacological treatments for bronchial asthma.

[Treatment of patients with infection-dependent bronchial asthma by conservative pulsed irrigation of the bronchi in fiber bronchoscopy with intal and heparin solutions]. / Lechenie bol'nykh infektsionno-zavisimoi bronkhial'noi astmoi shchadiashchim impul'snym orosheniem bronkhov pri bronkhofibroskopii rastvorami intala i geparina.

The authors presented the results of treatment of 115 patients with infection-dependent bronchial asthma. The most noticeable effect was observed in the patients on combined therapy including impulse irrigation of the bronchi (during sparing fibrobronchoscopy) with intal and heparin solutions as compared to the controls receiving this procedure with heparin solution (without intal) and a group of patients who had received intal inhalation by a routine method. A positive therapeutic effect was observed earlier in the patients receiving therapeutic bronchofibroscopy with heparin solution than in patients whose combined therapy included bronchoscopic sanation with nitrofurazone solution. The efficacy of the use of impulse irrigation of the bronchi (in sparing fibrobronchoscopy) with intal and heparin solutions in infection-dependent bronchial asthma was emphasized by the authors.