[Microwave resonance therapy in the treatment of patients with duodenal ulcer].

Microwave resonance treatment (MRT) of duodenal ulcer leads to normalization of relationships between aggressive and defense ulcerogenesis factors. This combines with activation of reparative regeneration of the ulcer lesion. There appears a tendency to a decline in pepsin and hydrochloric acid secretion in the gastric juice, plasmic gastrin concentrations decrease more noticeably, production of protective glycoproteins of the gastric mucus grows as well as of E 2 prostaglandins and plasmic secretin. Typical changes in the quantities of plasmic bombesin, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (lowering) and gastroinhibitory polypeptide (rising) in the MRT course allow prognostication of case-by-case responses. The highest sensitivity to MRT was observed in functional regulatory biochemical systems (neuropeptides, hormones) of the APUD series. Their reaction to MRT served the basis for biochemical typing of the patients and MRT outcome prognostication.