RESUMO
24 patients exposed to low-dose radiation after the Chernobyl accident were examined before and after 24-day treatment of chronic bronchitis in the high-altitude rehabilitation center (3200 m above the sea level) in Tien Shan. Sanogenic alpine climate improved the patients' general condition, physical performance and lung ventilation, corrected compromised immunity. After high-altitude adaptation tracheobronchial inflammation alleviated, cytologic composition and surface activity of bronchoalveolar fluid returned to normal. Therefore, high-altitude treatment of Chernobyl accident victims with chronic bronchitis is effective and can be recommended for such patients.
Assuntos
Altitude , Bronquite/reabilitação , Doenças Profissionais/reabilitação , Centrais Elétricas , Lesões por Radiação/reabilitação , Liberação Nociva de Radioativos , Adaptação Fisiológica , Adulto , Bronquite/etiologia , Bronquite/fisiopatologia , Doença Crônica , Humanos , Quirguistão , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Doenças Profissionais/etiologia , Doenças Profissionais/fisiopatologia , Lesões por Radiação/etiologia , Lesões por Radiação/fisiopatologia , UcrâniaRESUMO
132 bronchial asthma patients living in Frunze (760 m above the sea level) and those on adaptation days 3-5 and 25-30 to the climate of North Tien Shan (3200 m above the sea level) underwent clinical and functional examination involving assessment of ACTH, cortisol and aldosterone levels. The patients showed clinical response and improvement of bronchial permeability associated with a pronounced growth of plasma cortisol levels starting on adaptation days 3-5. By adaptation days 25-30 cortisol levels were still on the increase while ACTH concentration tended to reduction.