[Role of immune disorders in the pathogenesis of suppurative inflammatory diseases of the adnexa uteri].

Clinical and immunological studies were carried out in 60 patients with tubal pyoinflammatory diseases and in 20 healthy controls of a reproductive age. The immunity status was studied using IKO monoclonal antibodies to differentiation antigens of peripheral blood mononuclears. An acute purulent process was found to be characterized by an adaptive increase in the count of mononuclears carrying the markers of B lymphocytes (CD22, IgM mu-chain), of activated cells (CD38, HLA-D(r)), and of the total number of positive correlations between immunocompetent cells. A persistent course of tubal inflammation is connected with hyperproduction of antibodies and immune complexes, increased expression of HLA-Dr antigens in combination with congenital or acquired insufficiency of T-helper/inductors and suppressors/cytotoxic T-cells. An important factor in the development of a chronic suppurative process is triggering of immunocomplex mechanisms associated with fixation of IgG, IgM, and the complement in the walls of small vessels in the uterine tubes, with a high level of circulating immune complexes, and appearance of plasma cells containing IgG and IgM in the tissues of uterine tubes.