Effectiveness of intravenous laser blood irradiation for treating acute cholecystitis in patients of elderly age

Purpose: To assess effectiveness of intravenous laser blood irradiation (ILBI) with laser light wavelength 405 nm in the complex treatment of elderly patients with acute cholecystitis.Materials and methods: The researchers studied results of examination and treatment of 48 patients with acute cholecystitis aged 65-88 for who cholecystectomy was not indicated due to severe concomitant diseases or when patients refused of surgery. All patients had percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage under ultrasound control. Depending on the subsequent treatment, patients were divided into two groups. In the control group, 28 patients had complex medicamentous treatment, and in the studied group 20 patients had also medicamentous treatment which was added with ILBI (laser light wavelength - 405 nm).Results: ILBI added to the complex medicamentous therapy after percutaneous transhepatic drainage of the gallbladder in elderly patients with acute cholecystitis shortens terms of regression of local inflammatory changes, normalizes intoxication indexes, lipid peroxidation indexes as well as antioxidant protection; it also reduces length of hospitalization.