An assessment of the immune status of the mucosal membranes in chronic rhinosinusitis
Khmel'nitskaia, N.M.; Riazantsev, S.V.; Kokriakov, V.N.; Vorob'ev, K.V.; Aleshina, G.M.; Tyrnova, E.V.; Kliachko, L.L.; Kosenko, V.A.; al-Makhbashi, M.
Vestnik Otorinolaringologii 4: 47-50
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4668 PMID: 9752099 Document Number: 489747
The authors studied immune status of upper respiratory tracts mucosa in patients with different forms of chronic rhinosinusitis (purulent, polypous, vasomotor) in comparison to control subjects. An original complex of laboratory diagnostic techniques is proposed which can assess functional condition of the defense barriers of the upper respiratory tract mucosa in chronic inflammation, estimate impairment of specific and nonspecific resistance. This facilitates choice of optimal scheme of pathogenetic therapy of chronic inflammation in the upper respiratory tracts.