[The role of physiobalneotherapy in the prevention of weather-dependent exacerbations in the patients presenting with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].

The present publication presents the available data concerning the mechanisms of the development of enhanced meteosensitivity in the patients presenting with chronic broncho-obstructive pulmonary pathology with special reference to the characteristics of the most important biotropic weather factors acting on the population of the Moscow region. The possibility is substantiated for the introduction of non-medicamental methods (such as gas-air sodium dioxide bathtubs, whole body bathtubs with the use of mitofen preparations, and interval hypoxic trainings) into the prophylactic programs designed to prevent weather-dependent exacerbations of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

[The combined application of yellow turpentine bathtubs and bronchodilators inhalations for the treatment of the patients presenting with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].

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.

[The role of the respiratory and relaxation training in the treatment of the patients after the surgical treatment of non-specific pulmonary diseases].

The present study included 62 patients who had undergone the surgical intervention for the treatment of non-specific pulmonary diseases. All the patients were subjected to the psychological and spirometric examination. The study has demonstrated the relationship between the characteristics of the external respiration function on the one hand and the ability to handle stress, the levels of anxiety, tension, emotional instability and hypochondriacal mood on the other hand.

[On the usefulness of including general biolong baths in the combined therapeutic and rehabiliatative treatment of the patients presenting with obstructive diseases of the respiratory organs].

Bearing in mind the important role of oxidative stress and intensification of lipid peroxidation processes in the development and progression of obstructive pathology of the respiratory organs, we deemed it appropriate to evaluate the therapeutic effect of general baths containing biolong, an agent showing the antihypoxic and antioxidative properties. The clinical and functional studies that involved 109 patients (52 with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and 57 with bronchial asthma (BA)) have demonstrated the advantages of application of the hydrotherapeutic modality in the patients with bronchial asthma. The therapeutic effect was due to degradation of the allergic inflammation processes, the well apparent decrease in the activity of lipid peroxidation processes, the improvement of humoral immunity, generalized reduction of bronchial obstruction, enhanced physical working capacity, and psychoemotional adaptation.

[The approaches to realization of the therapeutic action of gas-air carbonate baths and lysozyme inhalation during their combined application for the treatment of patients presenting with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].

The results of this study indicate that the application of gas-air carbonate baths resulted in the reduction of alveolar hypoxia, moderate increase in the patency of central bronchi, marked improvement of pulmonary and systemic cardiohemodynamics, and functional state of cellular immunity. Courses of lysozyme inhalation promoted degradation of the inflammatory process, reduction of disturbances in the mucociliary function, and improved functioning of the humoral component of the immune system. The combined application of rehabilitative technologies had the well apparent anti-inflammatory and immunocorrective effect, decreased general bronchial obstruction and hypoxia, improved pulmonary and systemic hemodynamics and contractile activity of the myocardium, and suppressed lung hypertension.