[Effect of the anesthesia method on the immune status of gerontological patients during abdominal operations].

As a rule, gerontological patients have a combination of senile physiological immunodeficiency and secondary immunodeficiency caused by various diseases. These states of the immune system are aggravated by stress immunodeficiency formed as a result of operative traumas and anesthesia. The immunodeficiency state (IDS) of such patients in many respects is determined by their interleukine status. Patients operated on abdominal cavity organs by the life-saving indication according to a delayed or scheduled procedure under conditions of epidural anesthesia (45 patients), spinal anesthesia (43 patients) and general anesthesia (41 patients) were examined. When generalizing the obtained results, it is necessary to mention that various types of anesthesia have a different effect on the immune and interleukine status of gerontological patients.