IMMUNOTHERAPY IN TREATMENT OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN ADOLESCENTS

Abstract

Comprehensive examination of 62 adolescents, hospitalized for pulmonary tuberculosis, established high spread of clinical and laboratory markers of secondary immune deficiency: chronic diseases of ear, throat and nose (59,6%), recurrent infection caused by the herpes simplex viruses (SPGV) (55,8%) ; serological SPGV activation (90,4%) and cytomegalovirus infection (CMV) (94,2%); absolute lymphopenia (53,8%), low level and lack of interferon-alpha (28,9%) and interferongamma (76,9%). Validity, effectiveness and safety of modern technology immunization with interferon -α-2b (VIFERON® 3 million IU and 1 million IU suppositories) in 1 month course in the complex treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis was proved with a random research by a «case-control» method. Significant positive clinical and laboratory dynamics was registered: increase in body weight in 84,6 % of adolescents; reduction in the frequency of arrhythmias; increase absolute lymphocyte count (46,1%), decrease in serological SPGV activation (30,8%) and CMV infection (61,5%) increase in the amount of interferon-alpha (61,5%), and interferon-gamma (61,5%) and absence of intolerance and 3 times less undesirable effects of chemotherapy.

Keywords

• pulmonary tuberculosis
• immune deficiency
• herpesvirus infections
• interferonotherapy