[Endobronchial laser therapy of post-tuberculosis bronchial fibrous stenosis].
The results of endobronchial treatment of 9 patients with post-tuberculous fibrous stenoses of large bronchi by using neodymium-YAG laser are presented. After recanalization of fibrous stenoses the patients were given antioxidants (7.5% sodium thiosulfate solution, 0.5 ml, as endobronchial infusions in combination with oral or intramuscular alpha-tocopherol, 600 mg, for a month) in combination with endobronchial phototherapy with helium-neon laser radiation. This therapy improved the patients' general condition, pulmonary functional parameters, normalized lipid peroxidation and enhanced epithelial regeneration in the bronchial mucosa, thus providing a steady-state dilatation of the airways lumen by more than twice than that in stenosis.
Maliev
B M
BM
Andrzheiuk
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D001980:Bronchi / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001992:Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000601:surgery*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications*
Endobronkhial'naia lazernaia terapiia posttuberkuleznykh fibroznykh stenozov bronkhov.