METHOD OF TREATING RADIATION-INDUCED LUNG INJURY Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A61K31/10 A61K31/375 A61K31/573 A61K31/505 A61H1/00 A61P11/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely oncology and radiology, and may be used for treating radiation-induced lung injuries complicated by the abscess formation. That is ensured by using anti-inflammatory agents such as corticosteroids, antibiotics, and inhalation of 10% dimethyl sulphoxide; bronchodilators, mucolytics, antiplatelet, antihistamines, antitussives, breathing exercises and oxygen therapy. In this case, the treatment is performed in hospital environment and combined with using detoxification, analgesic, hemostatic agents and antitussives, controlled hypotension, abscess cavity sanitation; the above aids are used till pain management, body temperature normalisation, general status stabilisation, cough and dyspnea relief. Then, replacement, metabolic, reparative and immune agents are prescribed additionally. The treatment is continued until the Karnovskiy functional status is stabilised at 60-80%, while decreasing the amount of the abscess cavity discharge by 50% or the absence; in this case the patient is transferred to the outpatient treatment with regular admission when the Karnovskiy status is occurred to decrease to 40-50%, while the QOLi-NS value decreases to 25 points, and an X-ray pattern seem to alternate.

EFFECT: invention provides the conservative treatment of complicated radiation-induced lung injuries; it enables prolonging the life and quality thereof in the patients suffering radiation-induced purulent-destructive chest processes.

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