PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF IMMUNITY AND THE LEVEL OF PROINFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES IN PATIENTS WITH APPENDICITIS
Patients with not complicated and with later complicated course of appendicitis did not have essential changes in the condition of cellular and humoral immunity on the first day of the disease. At the same time, patients developing suppuration of operational wound high levels of IL-8 and TNFα were noted. Increase of concentration of specified pro-inflammatory cytokines is prognostic factor of purulent complications development.