Озонотерапия на Кубе.

[V. ZAITSEV]

Озонотерапия на Кубе широко используется при лечении совершенно различных заболеваний. По моим данным, если некоторое количество больных из США и приезжают на Кубу на лечение, то большей частью ради этой терапии.

Привожу несколько (из многих десятков) аннотаций работ, доложенных на конференциях в Лондоне и Гаване.

15th Ozone World Congress, September 2001, London (United Kingdom)

OZONE THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA.
Copello M.1, Eguía F.2, Menéndez S.3 and Menéndez N.1.
1Retinitis Pigmentosa National Reference Center, "Dr. Salvador Allende" Hospital, Cuba.
2"Ramón Pando Ferrer" Ophthalmologic Hospital, Cuba.
3Ozone Research Center, Cuba.
ABSTRACT
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is characterized by progressive night blindness. The aim of this study is to determine the efficacy of ozone therapy in patients with RP. A controlled, randomized, double blind clinical trial involving 68 patients was performed. Patients were divided into 2 groups: ozone, patients were treated with ozone by rectal administration (dose = 10 mg), during 15 sessions; control, as ozone group, but using oxygen. The main outcome variable was the visual field area (VFA). Results demonstrated a significant improvement (SI) in 88.2 % of patients treated with ozone in comparison with 23.5 % achieved in the control group. In the ozone group, VFA tend to stabilize beyond a mean time of 6.83 months with a loose in SI afterward. A temporal positive effect of ozone therapy, over the natural course of RP, was found. It could be useful to apply ozone therapy in the first stages of the disease and at six-month intervals in order to enhance visual capabilities in RP patients.




APPLICATION OF OZONE IN PATIENTS WITH KERATITIS.
J.C. Pina, Y. Mapolon1, M. Palma1, E. Recio1, C. Harrys1, M. Rodríguez1.
Dr. Eduardo Agramonte Pina Children Hospital, Camagüey, Cuba.
1Retinitis Pigmentosa Center, Camagüey, Cuba.
Since February 1996, 120 patients with keratitis were treated in the Retinitis Pigmentosa Center of Camagüey, Cuba. 60 patients (sample) were treated with ozone and 60 patients (control group) with conventional treatment (yodoxuridine, leuferon, homatropine, vitamin therapy). 35 males and 45 females, between 15 and 35 years old presenting photophobia and feeling of strange bodies in their eyes were evaluated. At the present, this disease has a long course and the conventional treatment is very expensive, mostly because of the medications it requires. The ozone treatment was rectal application and subconjunctival way, combining both. After the first week, all the patients treated with ozone started to show signs of improvement and they were totally cured after 3 weeks, while in the control group, the evolution had a long course, more than 6 months. We concluded that ozone therapy brings very positive results in the treatment of this disease

ANALYSIS OF THE ELECTROPHYSIOLOGYCAL THRESHOLD, AUDIOMETRY AND LATENCY OF THE WAVE V IN CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS SUBMITTED TO OZONE THERAPY.
E. Basabe.
Cira García Central Clinic, Cuba.
A double blind study, in Lina Odena special school for hearing loss, was performed. 34 children were selected with the same educational profile and divided at random in 2 groups: 17 received rectal oxygen and the others 17 received rectal ozone, in doses according to age. Comparing the results, audiometry, electrophysiologycal threshold and the latency of the wave V to 90 DB, for the same ear, improved in a great percentage of children that received ozone therapy. Not the same behavior, with the children that received oxygen, was observed. It's concluded that ozone therapy is a valid method in the treatment of children with hearing loss.


BASILAR VERTEBRA TRUNK DOPPLER OF PATIENTS WITH COCHLEO VESTIBULAR SYNDROME TREATED WITH THERAPY AND ACUPUNCTURE.
E. Basabe, V. Borroto1, L. Bell2, S. Menéndez3, C. López2, M. A. Alarcón4.
Cira García Central Clinic, Cuba.
1lro. de Enero Policlinic, Cuba.
2Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital, Cuba.
3Ozone Research Center, Cuba.
4Lina Odena Special School, Cuba.
A study in 60 patients suffering of an incomplete cochleo vestibular syndrome with dizzy predominance, was performed. The patients were divided in 4 groups: 1-ozone, 2-ozone plus acupuncture, 3-acupunture and 4-medicaments. A basilar vertebra trunk doppler was made to each patients at the beginning, at the end of the treatment and after 6 and 12 months. The results demonstrated a significant improvement in the doppler (decrease of the peripheral resistance and spectral broadening-sb-) of those patients treated with ozone and ozone plus acupuncture in comparison with group 3 and 4. No significant difference, between group 1 and 2, was obtained. It is concluded that ozone therapy is an appropriate indication for this disease.


OZONE PLUS COBALT THERAPY IN PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM PROSTATIC CANCER.
L. Borrego, L.L. Borrero, E.C. Díaz1, S. Menéndez2, L.R. Borrego3, R.A. Borrego3.
Provincial Center of Retinitis Pigmentosa, Holguín, Cuba.
1V.I. Provincial Center of Retinitis Pigmentosa, Holguín, Cuba.
2Ozone Research Center, Cuba.
3Faculty of Medicin, Holguín, Cuba.
Prostatic adenocarcinoma is the most frequent tumor in men older than 50 years old, representing the 16.7 % of all the death cases of cancer in male sex. With an early diagnose and an appropriate treatment the survival increase in 5 years, in 91 % of cases. Cancer metabolism is fundamentally anaerobic, for that reason, increasing oxygenation in damaged tissues, may diminished the side effects produced by radiation treatments, as well as increase radio-sensibility. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of ozone therapy in conjunction with cobalt-60 therapy, in the treatment of patients suffering from prostatic cancer, taking into account the influence that ozone exerts in tissue oxygenation. 70 patients with malignant neoplasia in prostate, stage A and B of the disease (intracapsular) were treated by an oncourology muldisciplinary group of the "Lenin" Hospital (Holguin Province). 35 patients were treated with rectal ozone plus cobalt therapy (ozone group) and 35 with cobalt therapy only (control group). The appearance of side effects (dermatitis radiation, cystitis, proctitis) and the behavior of some humoral and clinical parameters were evaluated up to 6 months after finishing the treatment. 84 % and 52 % of side effects were presented in control group and ozone group, respectively. Prostatic specific antigen (PSA) decrease, less than 10 ng/mL, in 92 % of patients treated with ozone and in 52 % in control group, one month after finishing the treatment. 88 % and 80 % of clinical and humoral control of the disease were obtained in ozone group and control group, respectively, 6 months later. It is concluded that, combining cobalt therapy with ozone, a decrease in side effects and an increase in radio-sensibility were achieved.


OZONE THERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF ELDERLY PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM PARKINSON'S SYNDROMES.
M.M. Rodríguez, J. R. García, S. Menéndez1, E. Devesa, A. Cámbara.
10 de Octubre Clinical-Surgical Hospital, Cuba.
1Ozone Research Center, Cuba.
Parkinson's syndromes are present frequently in the third age, with a high tendency to produce disability. The aim of this paper is to study the effectiveness of ozone therapy in the improvement of the elderly autonomy, as well as the quality of life of patients suffering of Parkinson's disease, taking into account some therapeutical properties of ozone (increase of the antioxidant defense system, enhancement in the tissue oxygenation, metabolic modulation, improvement of the neuroplasticity phenomenom, etc.). A sample of 80 patients with Parkinson's syndromes of different nature were treated with rectal ozone (during 15 sessions) and physiotherapy. A complete neurologic and psychometric examination (Minimental test, Katz index, multidimensional evaluation, etc.) was performed in each patient, at the beginning and at the end of the treatment. The results demonstrated that all symptoms and signs studied improved after the treatment, fundamentally the rigidity (95.7 %), the gait (95.3 %) and the bradiphrasia (88.8 %). The Daily Life Activities improved in 95 % of the treated patients. Any side-effect or intolerance were observed during the treatment. In general, an improvement in the quality of life of these patients, increasing their autonomy for a much longer period was achieved.

[Zhivov]

По моим данным, если некоторое количество больных из США и приезжают на Кубу на лечение, то большей частью ради этой терапии.
Я дкмаю. что по больше части из-за отсутствия медицинской страховки и хорошего знания англ. языка (это испаноговорящие, которых в СШа все больше). Что до качества работ, обсудим при наличии времени.