[Low intensity laser radiation in complex therapy of patients with vascular obliterating atherosclerosis of low extremities].

It is shown that laser therapy used in a multiple-modality treatment of patients with obliterating atherosclerosis of vessels of the interior limbs presenting with stage I-III ischemia permits achieving a substantial clinical effect manifested subjectively by fewer compliants or disappearance thereof in a proportion of patients, which fact is corraborated by objective findings such as increase in peripheral, volumetric blood flow and lower degree, in some patients, of ischemia of the extremities, improvement in processes of microcirculation and hemocoagulation. The use of laser radiation and pneumocompression combined in treatment of patients with chronic arterial insufficiency of the lower extremities of atherosclerotic genesis has been shown to have a more marked and appreciable effect. The studies made broaden our possibilities of conservative non-medicamentous treatment of obliterating atherosclerosis of vessels of the lower extremities.