Laser treatment in endocrinology Endocrinology is a section of medical science that studies the function, structure and diseases of the organs of internal secretion - the organs of the endocrine system. The word "endocrinology" is derived from Greek words such as endo - inside, krino - to allocate, as well as logos - teaching.

The growth of endocrinology as a science and its further isolation into a separate medical field began at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, although the original treatises are related to the 16th and 18th centuries. Later, the first descriptions of the symptoms of individual diseases related to the field of endocrinology were also formed.

According to the latest studies in the field of endocrinology, it is possible to discover that the growth of most diseases begins with the deterioration of the equilibrium in the hormonal state of the organism. The endocrine system regulates and coordinates the work of each organ and system, ensuring that the organism becomes accustomed to the regularly changing factors of the external world. With the glands of internal secretion, hormones that directly affect the metabolism are produced and released into the human blood, while changing the function of the organism as a whole.

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Endocrinology is closely related to neurology, gynecology, pharmacology, sexopathology and other areas of medicine. To date, endocrinology is a fairly developed branch of medicine, with the help of which it is possible to significantly improve the overall standard of living of most patients.

There are no clinical disciplines that do not directly or indirectly use information obtained in the field of endocrinology. Treatment of most pathological conditions is hardly possible without the need for correction of the overall hormonal background. Treatment in endocrinology is the work of an endocrinologist, and hormonal disorders in the field of gynecology is already a privilege of a gynecologist-endocrinologist.

The glands of the body's internal secretion( or endocrine glands) are :

  • parathyroid;
  • thyroid;
  • adrenal glands;
  • pancreas;
  • ovaries in women;
  • testicles in men;
  • hypothalamus;
  • pituitary gland.

In addition, hormones also produce organs that are not directly related to endocrinology and are not endocrine glands. These include the liver, heart and brain.

Endocrine glands do not have discharge streams and form products of their secretion - hormones - mainly in the blood circulation. Hormones perform the most important function in regulating metabolism, the processes of vital activity and growth of the whole organism.

Cells of endocrine glands produce juices( secret glands) that contain substances specific for any particular endocrine organ, called hormones, and are released directly into the blood. This is the main difference between them and the exocrine glands, which secrete their secret in the duct, which goes to the outer covering of the body( sweat, salivary glands, lungs, stomach).

A hormone represents a chemical substance that flows directly into the bloodstream and then reaches the blood with a variety of organs, where the activity of the remaining cells, called target cells, is stimulated or reduced. With the help of target cells, hormones have a direct effect on literally every vital function of the human body in endocrinology.

There are diseases that immediately affect the majority of endocrine organs( multiple endocrine neoplasia - MEN, Schmidt's syndrome, lipodystrophy).Thanks to this in endocrinology, the treatment and diagnosis of similar diseases is even more difficult.

As a result, endocrinology can be called a section of medicine that studies the structure, diseases and function of the organs of internal secretion, which are endocrine organs. Therapy of diseases of the endocrine system in endocrinology is the responsibility of the special doctor - endocrinologist, and endocrine deterioration in gynecology - doctor gynecologist-endocrinologist.

Laser treatment in endocrinology is a therapeutic effect on the human body with the help of electromagnetic radiation of the optical range( i.e., light).Of those physiotherapeutic methods of influence on the human body that exist, laser low-energy radiation is an optimal method.

The reasons for this:

  • therapeutic laser in accordance with energy parameters affects the body without damaging the biosystem, but at the same time it is enough to activate the vital processes of the human body;
  • laser radiation contributes to the emergence of not only the local reaction of the body, but also has a normalizing effect on the function of the human body as a whole, activates the biosystem.

The method of laser induced interstitial thermotherapy( LITT) is based on the irreversibility of deterioration of pathological tissues and cells under the influence of high temperatures and the absence of these damages from the normal surrounding tissue.

This effect can be achieved with the help of local heating of tissues with an increase in their temperature within the range of 43-45 degrees. With this temperature regime, pathological cells die, in contrast to healthy ones. To create such a thermal field, you can use lasers that emit in the near infrared spectrum( 0, 8-1, 1 μm) with the transfer of laser radiation energy to the pathology site through a thin and flexible fiber waveguide.

Laser treatment has merits, such as selectivity and local influence, the possibility of processing deep-lying formations, excellent patient tolerance and the absence of large difficulties in its application.