INDICATIONS AND CONTRAINDICATIONS FOR GLO MECTOMY IN PATIENTS WITH BRONCHIAL-ASTHMA

Thirty-year experience in surgical treatment of more than 3,000 patien ts with severe and moderately severe bronchial asthma showed that unil ateral glomectomy produces a stable positive result in 69.5 % of patie nts in follow-up repiods of two and more decades. Clinical recovery oc curred in 23.2 % of patients. Immunocorrection methods, such as hemoso rption, plasmapheresis, plasmacytopheresis, xenosplenoperfusion, and t he use of splenoperfusate raise the efficacy of the operation to 80-90 %. The indications and contraindications for glomectomy in patients w ith bronchial asthma and methods for immunocorrection treatment of pat ients after glomectomy were developed.