| Abstract: | The development of immunotherapy modalities using active immunologically "trained" cells obtained just from a focus of tuberculous inflammation is a promising direction of the prevention and treatment of recurrent tuberculosis. Thirty patients were examined. A procedure was developed for autoimmunotherapy. The study showed it possible to obtain living, sterile, tuberculous inflammation focus-trophic lymphocytes in the amount sufficient for an immunotherapeutical effect. Autoimmunotherapy was found to reduce the number of postoperative recurrences (6% in the experimental group versus 20% in the control one), promoted prompter recovery of tuberculous bronchitis, earlier normalization of the parameters of systemic and antituberculous immunity after surgery. Densitometric analysis of X-ray films revealed a significant focal consolidation (by 1.37 times) after using focus-infiltrating lymphocytes. Autoimmunotherapy using focus-infiltrating lymphocytes makes it possible to improve the outcomes of surgical treatment of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis by reducing the risk of postoperative recurrent tuberculosis, to apply resection interventions in disseminated and bilateral pulmonary tuberculosis more extensively, to use saving resections aimed at removing the basic focus of a tuberculous lesion if there are disseminated focal seedings, and to promote the solution of a problem of the surgical management of patients with drug-resistant mycobacteria. |
