[Experience in using immunal in the complex treatment of patients with torpid peptic ulcer].

Aim: to provide a rationale for the use of immunal in intractable gastroduodenal peptic ulcers (PU), by studying Helicobacter pylori genotypes and immunological parameters.
Subjects and Methods: Sixty-eight patients (37 men and 31 women) with torpid PU were examined. A study group comprised 35 patients who took immunal as a component of complex eradication therapy; a control group included 33 patients who received complex eradication therapy only. In addition to clinical and endoscopic data, the values of H. pylori genotypes were used to evaluate therapeutic efficiency.
Results: The inclusion of immunal into the complex therapy in patients with torpid PU exerts a significant clinical effect in relieving the pain syndrome and dyspeptic symptoms and in accelerating ulcer cicatrization. The disappearance of virulent H. pylori strains was noted during treatment. Recovery of phagocytic, cellular, and humoral immunities is an important result of therapy.
Conclusion: The use of immunal as a component of complex therapy for torpid PU is pathogenetically founded and clinically effective.