Effectiveness of photodynamic therapy in the complex treatment of patients with purulent lesions in the scrotum

Abstract

The authors discuss results of their study of treating 130 patients with purulent scrotum diseases. The main group consisted of 42 patients who had photodynamic therapy (PDT); the control group was divided into subgroups A and B: patients from subgroup A (n-40) had traditional treatment, and patients from subgroup B (n-48) had surgery when high-level laser light was used. Planimetric, laboratory, microbiological and histological findings demonstrate that photodynamic therapy in the complex treatment of patients with purulent scrotal disease is a highly effective technique which reduces the length of hospitalization and the length of total treatment process by 26.8%. It is explained by less alterative-exudative phase of inflammation, less microcirculatory disorders as well as by a significant acceleration of wound purification from purulent-necrotic masses what leads to earlier and active granulation in tissue. The researchers underline the lack of microbial resistance to PDT.