Low-intensive lasers in the treatment of peptic gastric and duodenal ulcers.

Pharmacochemical achievements have brought about considerable improvement in treating peptic ulcers. But possible side effects demand a very cautious approach to the administration of every new drug, and stimulate the search for nontraditional treatment. In 638 patients who were treated by semiconductor laser transcutaneously (external irradiation), an average term of ulcer healing was 11.

[The phototherapy of peptic ulcer patients using a semiconductor laser].

External semiconductor laser treatment was realized in 470 patients with peptic ulcer. The average time of ulcer healing was twice shorter than in control cases. Ulcer epithelialization depended on the severity of the disease, diameter and depth of the ulcer defect.

[Dynamic radiothermography of the human liver].

In the experiments on the volunteers it has been shown that the method of dynamic radiothermography is quite sensitive for measurement of temperature fluctuations in human body. This method makes it possible to register the changes of the temperature in inner organs using the probes placed on body surface. Some volunteers drank hot or cold water, some volunteers drank glucose solution, others got the dose of low laser radiation upon the liver.

[Use of infrared ray laser irradiation in the rehabilitation treatment of patients with long-term crush syndrome in an emergency care hospital].

The principle 'rehabilitation starts in a resuscitation ward' has been realized in the resuscitation treatment of 34 patients with the prolonged crush syndrome (PCS) who were injured during the earthquake in Armenia. Laser therapy has been fairly effective, normalizing the external respiration function and central hemodynamics and reducing the blood coagulability. Instrumental vibration massage and acupuncture are recommended to be added to rehabilitation treatment of PCS patients.