title: [Lasers in combined modality treatment of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis].
abstract: Low-energy lasers were used in the combined preoperative treatment and therapy of 548 patients with chronic fibrocavernous tuberculosis. Indications for some types of exposure were defined, namely, transcutaneous exposure of the tuberculous involvement zone, combination of transcutaneous laser exposure and laser puncture, intravenous and endocavitary laser exposure. Low-energy lasers, as a many-factor pathogenetic exposure, are conducive to a more rapid and effective stabilization of tuberculosis progress, which helps sooner prepare the patients to surgical interventions and in some patients even do without them, reduce the number of postoperative complications, and improve the efficacy of surgical treatment of grave patients.
authors.affiliation: Central NII of Tuberculosis RAMN, Moscow.
authors.forename: V G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Dobkin
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bagirov
authors.forename: G B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Bondarev
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Sadovnikova
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy; D011300:Preoperative Care / Q000295:instrumentation; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000628:therapy*