[Immunologic status and leukocyte function of patients with suppurative lactational mastitis]

In patients with a severe course of suppurative lactation mastitis there develops a relative deficiency in the cellular and humoral links of immunity. The compensatory activation of factors of nonspecific antiinflammatory resistance of the organism fails to exert a substantial positive effect on the development of the destructive process in these patients. On the basis of the data obtained, in order to improve results of the surgical treatment of patients with suppurative lactation mastitis means of the cellular anti-infection therapy, transfusions of donor leukocyte masses in particular, must be included in the complex of curative measures in the postoperative period.