[Ultrastructural changes of neutrophilic granulocytes in dilated cardiomyopathy and their dynamics after blood irradiation with Helium-Neon laser in vitro].

Venous blood from 10 patients with dilated cardiomyopathy was irradiated with a laser in vitro. The control group consisted of 20 healthy donors. The neutrophil granulocytes were separated at gradient centrifugation. Alterations of neutrophils manifested with an increase of specific cytoplasmic granules number, thickening of submembrane actin, cell configuration changes with a relative increase of their surface. Laser irradiation of the blood resulted in destruction of the altered (less resistant) cells while morphometric parameters of the remaining cells approaches those of donor cells. Thus, low-intensity laser irradiation results in the renewal of the neutrophil population in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy and normalization of structural-functional changes in the circulating neutrophil population.