[Effects of intravascular laser irradiation of blood on the state of the immune system of patients with chronic osteomyelitis].

The authors discuss the results of study of the immune status in 55 patients with chronic osteomyelitis, it was found that the condition of the patients' immune system reflects the duration and severity of the disease and the individual reactivity of the organism. The inclusion of laser treatment in the complex of therapeutic measures should be based on appraisal of the condition of the immune system and conducted under dynamic immunological control. In deficiency of the thymus-dependent immunity the sessions of blood intravascular laser irradiation activate the organism's defence forces and facilitate correction of the imbalance in the system of the regulating cells. Laser irradiation of blood in mild changes of the immunological status is expedient because it may lead to negative dynamics of the immune system. Attainment of an optimal immunological condition in the preoperative period is conductive to a favourable course of the postoperative period and a favourable outcome of the disease.