Diltiazem: A Reversible Cause of Atrioventricular Block – Until Proven Otherwise

Abstract

The paper is concerned with the results of assessment of the effect of immunosorption on a course of bronchial asthma in 10 patients with hypersensitifity to the domestic dust allergen and in 3 patients with hyperreactivity to the allergen of timothy pollen. Positive changes in the clinical status were also reflected in function of external respiration. A study of the humoral immunity revealed a decrease in the IgE level and an increase in the IgG level in a long-term postsorption period that might also provide for clinical remission of the disease. A decrease in skin hyperreactivity in the intracutaneous test was noted. A 6-month study of a course of the disease was indicative of a good therapeutic efficacy of the method of extracorporal immunosorption.