[Validation and experience in the use of local oxygen therapy in the system of the combined treatment of psoriasis patients].

Comprehensive examinations of dermal morphology and function, carried out in 50 patients suffering from psoriasis, have revealed manifest hypoxia, depression of the intramitochondrial energy production, reduction of the cellular synthetic potency, increased protein catabolism, impaired transcapillary transport and vascular and tissue permeability, immediate and delayed type hypersensitivity local immune reactions. Basing on these findings, the authors have developed a new effective method for multiple modality treatment of psoriasis patients. The new scheme includes, besides the routine modalities (sedative and lipotropic drug, vitamins, UV irradiation, diets, ointments), subcutaneous injections of oxygen into the large foci (200 ml daily, 12-18 injections per course, alternating the injection sites) and oral intake of copper sulfate and reduced iron (3 times daily after meals for 20-30 days). The study has involved 112 patients with psoriasis (61 patients in the test group and 51 in the reference one). Clinical and morphologic examinations have demonstrated the advantages of the new method: clinical remission has occurred 1.8 times more often, the length of treatment has been cut by 7 days, an earlier and more complete recovery of the morphofunctional characteristics of the dermis has been achieved.