Monitoring the chemiluminescence of leukocytes in suppurative surgical infections
Kalmykov, S.V.; Batunova, E.V.; Karniushina, N.L.; Tarabrin, A.L.
Laboratornoe Delo 11: 33-35
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-6748 PMID: 1722845 Document Number: 379967
The authors suggest that analysis of chemiluminescence of patient's blood leukocytes be used for monitoring the status of surgical patients. Chemiluminescence value on the 15th min starting from the onset of phagocytosis may reflect the neutrophil activation. Monitoring of the status of patients with purulent surgical diseases has shown that a sluggish course of the inflammatory processes is related to inadequate functional activity of the leukocytes, and temporary activation of the neutrophils is recorded in 83% of cases when the patient's status improves: either initially in case of an acute course, or in late periods if the disease course is protracted.