Laser therapy in treatment and rehabilitation of lung tuberculosis

Abstract

Combined chemotherapy and laser therapy were used together with a rehabilitation complex in 159 patients of the basic group. After 3-month treatment Mycobacterium tuberculosis stopped to be isolated in 80.1% of the patients and decay cavities vanished in 65.7%. The control group involved 87 patients, and the corresponding parameters for them were 56.2% and 40.3%. After 6-month complex therapy 94.8% of the basic group patients ceased to excrete Mycobacterium tuberculosis and decay cavities disappeared in 85.1%. The control group received a standard chemotherapy showed 68.5% and 40.3% accordingly. Lung function became normal in 64.0% of the patients treated with the rehabilitation complex and ventilation disorders became moderate in 30.2%. The control group demonstrated 40.2% and 21.7% correspondingly.