REGIONAL LASER THERAPY IN TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH STRANGULATED VENTRAL HERNIA

Abstract

An analysis of treatment was made of 265 patients with strangulated hernia of the anterior abdominal wall. The patients were divided into main group (n=138) and control group (n=127). Nonstrain and conventional methods of hernioplasty and low-intensive laser radiation (LILR) were used for the patients of the first group. LILR wasn’t applied in the control group. The studied groups were statistically comparable on the basis of main disease, sex and age. Computed thermography was used in addition to standard methods of diagnostics in order to identify the wound complications in postoperative period. The application of low-intensive laser radiation for patients of main group allowed reducing the rate of development of local infectious complications in the area of plasty as compared with control group from 15,7 and 53,4% to 8,9 and 32,8% (p

Keywords

• strangulated hernia of the abdominal wall
• surgical treatment
• wound complications
• prevention
• laser therapy
• computed thermography