High-energy laser irradiation in the combined treatment of duodenal ulcer
Matiushichev, V.B.; Soldatov, A.I.
Klinicheskaia Meditsina 72(4): 15-16
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2149 PMID: 7990368 Document Number: 431069
Combined treatment of 149 patients with duodenal ulcer included a course of endoscopic irradiation emitted by a copper laser. The ulcers healed in all the cases, complicated with hemorrhages among them. In the exposure to green-and-yellow light in day intervals cicatrization occurred within treatment day 11.6 +/- 0.6, on the average. Separate use of green and yellow light gave similar results. For controls respective days were 27.2 +/- 1.3. The above multimodality treatment with laser resulted in 5 year relapse-free intervals in 43% of those treated against the absence of relapse-free patients 3 years after the start of drug monotherapy.