Li. Vinnitsky et al., B-2-MICROGLOBULIN IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND PR OGNOSIS OF POSTOPERATIVE INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS IN LUNG SURGERY, Hirurgia, (11), 1994, pp. 37-39
The radioimmunoassay was used to study blood serum B-2-M levels in 56
patients with pulmonary diseases (lung carcinoma in 20, chronic suppur
ative lung disease in 20, and bening lung disease in 16 patients) befo
re the operation and in the early postoperative period. The control gr
oup was formed of 21 practically healthy individuals. A direct correla
tion between the character of the course of the postoperative period i
n patients with bening and chronic pulmonary diseases and the dynamics
of changes of immunoreactivity (IR) was found. A favorable course of
the postoperative period was marked by an increase of IR, in postopera
tive infectious complications IR did not change. Dynamics of IR was no
t revealed in patients with lung carcinoma, irrespective of the course
of the postoperative period.