[Experiences with laser therapy in acute myocardial infarct]

Our clinical and instrumental investigations showed that invasive laser therapy has a multiple therapeutic effect. Acting favourably on principal pathogenetic mechanisms of acute myocardial infarction, it decreases the pain syndrome, normalize electrical instability of the heart, limits myocardial ischemic damage area and accelerates scarring process. It leads to a decrease in mortality and in the incidence of severe complications of myocardial infarction such as ventricular fibrillation, cardiogenic shock, cardiac insufficiency. Thus, the new method of treating acute myocardial infarction with He-Ne laser irradiation significantly enhances treatment efficacy, improves the course and prognosis of myocardial infarction.