[The validation of the frequency of performing plasmapheresis in the treatment of bronchial asthma patients].

On the basis of the analysis of plasmapheresis (PPh) influence on clinical and functional and immunological indices in 105 patients with bronchial asthma the authors have come to the conclusion that PPh effect is the number-of-procedures-dependent. The most pronounced effect occurred in those groups having been given three to five PPh procedures. The above effect begins to reveal itself during the first postoperative week but the greatest positive changes take place between the 7th and the 14th days.

[The clinico-immunological characteristics of the treatment of patients with a severe course of bronchial asthma using the method of the extracorporeal incorporation of pig donor spleen].

A comprehensive clinical-and-immunological evaluation was done of efficiency of treatment of patients with severe forms of bronchial asthma (BA) by hemosorption through donor porcine spleen, xenosorption (XS), in 63 patients. XS was found out to have a marked positive clinical effect manifested by a considerable decrease of frequency of asphyxiation bouts and amounts of inhalation broncholytics being taken within the first 24 hours after the procedure. By day 14 from the start of XS we succeeded in lowering the systemic corticosteroids maintenance dose on the average 2.

[The comparative efficacy of hemosorption and xenosorption in bronchial asthma patients].

The authors studied comparative clinical, immunologic, laboratory and functional effectiveness of hemosorption (HS) on charcoals and xenosorption (XS) on donor pig spleen in bronchial asthma patients. XS was administered in 60 patients, HS was applied to 91 patient. There was no significant difference in immunologic characteristics between the patient groups.

[The clinico-immunological characteristics of bronchial asthma patients undergoing autologous ultraviolet blood irradiation].

Ultraviolet irradiation of blood studied in 201 patients with various forms of bronchial asthma proved to be the most effective in "aspirin" and infectious-allergic forms of the disease. Analysis of immunological changes showed that ultraviolet irradiation of blood brings to the norm content of IgG in serum, influence beneficially quantity and functional activity of T-lymphocytes, reduces auto-immunization and sensibilization to Streptococcus.