[Intravascular photohemotherapy in the complex prophylaxis of purulent-septic complications after coronary shunting]. / Vnutrisosudistaia fotogemoterapiia v kompleksnoi profilaktike gnoino-septicheskikh oslozhnenii posle koronarnogo shuntirovaniia.

The article presents results of treatment of 78 patients with the history of coronary bypass operations for ischemic heart disease. There were 48 patients with high risk factors of the development of pyo-septic complications. Among them there were 27 patients treated by complex postoperative therapy including intravascular photomodification of blood. The intravascular irradiation of blood was shown to have a positive influence upon the development of the early postoperative period in this category of patients. The immunomodulating effect was noted due to a greater amount of activated lymphocytes and T-helpers in blood. The positive dynamics of immunological indices were in correspondence with the data of the clinical state, pyo-inflammatory complications were not registered in this group of patients. Early (on the 3rd-5th days) inclusion of the intravascular irradiation of blood in the complex postoperative therapy is thought to be expedient for the patients with high risk of pyo-inflammatory complications.

Evidence that singlet oxygen-induced human T helper cell apoptosis is the basic mechanism of ultraviolet-A radiation phototherapy.

Ultraviolet A (UVA) irradiation is effectively used to treat patients with atopic dermatitis and other T cell mediated, inflammatory skin diseases. In the present study, successful phototherapy of atopic dermatitis was found to result from UVA radiation-induced apoptosis in skin-infiltrating T helper cells, leading to T cell depletion from eczematous skin. In vitro, UVA radiation-induced human T helper cell apoptosis was mediated through the FAS/FAS-ligand system, which was activated in irradiated T cells as a consequence of singlet oxygen generation. These studies demonstrate that singlet oxygen is a potent trigger for the induction of human T cell apoptosis. They also identify singlet oxygen generation as a fundamental mechanism of action operative in phototherapy.