title: [The combined application of yellow turpentine bathtubs and bronchodilators inhalations for the treatment of the patients presenting with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].
abstract: This paper was designed to report the results of comparative clinical and functional studies involving 89 patients who presented with moderately severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and were given the combined treatment with yellow turpentine bathtubs and bronchodilators inhalations with the use of a nebulizer. The patients comprising group 1 (n=29) were treated with yellow turpentine bathtubs and bronchodilators inhalations, those making up group 2 (n=30) received monotherapy with yellow turpentine bathtubs alone, and the patients included in group 3 (n=3) served as controls treated with the use of therapeutic physical exercises and symptomatic medications analogous to those given to the patients of the two former groups. The results of the study give evidence of the advantages of the rehabilitative complex including yellow turpentine bathtubs and atrovent inhalations over two alternative therapeutic modalities attributable to its pronounced anti-inflammatory and immune-corrective activity that resulted in the generalized improvement of bronchial patency, reduction of lung hypertension, and enhancement of physical tolerance; taken together, these effects ensured the best clinical results.
authors.affiliation: Federal state budgetary institution 'Russian Research Centre for Medical Rehabilitation and Balneotherapy', Russian Ministry of Health, ul. Novy Arbat, 32, Moscow, Russian Federation, 121099.
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Airapetova
authors.affiliation: State autonomous health facility 'Specialized Clinical Hospital for Rehabilitative Treatment'. Moscow Health Department, ul. Talalikhina, 26 'A', Moscow, Russian Federation, 109316.
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Polikanova
authors.affiliation: Federal state budgetary institution 'Russian Research Centre for Medical Rehabilitation and Balneotherapy', Russian Ministry of Health, ul. Novy Arbat, 32, Moscow, Russian Federation, 121099.
authors.forename: O V
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Kulikova
authors.affiliation: Federal state budgetary institution 'Russian Research Centre for Medical Rehabilitation and Balneotherapy', Russian Ministry of Health, ul. Novy Arbat, 32, Moscow, Russian Federation, 121099.
authors.forename: O V
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Nitchenko
authors.affiliation: Federal state budgetary institution 'Russian Research Centre for Medical Rehabilitation and Balneotherapy', Russian Ministry of Health, ul. Novy Arbat, 32, Moscow, Russian Federation, 121099.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Sizyakova
authors.affiliation: Federal state budgetary institution 'Russian Research Centre for Medical Rehabilitation and Balneotherapy', Russian Ministry of Health, ul. Novy Arbat, 32, Moscow, Russian Federation, 121099.
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Derevnina
mesh_terms: D000280:Administration, Inhalation; D001452:Balneology; D001993:Bronchodilator Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000628:therapy; D014425:Turpentine / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D001993:Bronchodilator Agents; D014425:Turpentine