1. [Clinical-therapeutical correlations in meningococcal infection: prophylactic heparin therapy (author's transl)].
- Author
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Rodríguez-Vigil Lorenzo E, Antuña García MJ, Menéndez M, Poo Argüelles P, Sobrino González A, Suárez Calvo E, Méndez Méndez J, Ramos Polo E, and Roza Suárez M
- Subjects
- Adolescent, Child, Child, Preschool, Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation etiology, Female, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Male, Meningitis, Meningococcal complications, Meningococcal Infections mortality, Sepsis etiology, Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation prevention & control, Heparin administration & dosage, Meningococcal Infections complications, Sepsis complications
- Abstract
A number of 241 patients with meningococcal infection, treated between 1972 and 1978, is analysed. Some new therapeutic patterns are established based on the application of the prognosis score of Stiehm. With these patterns consisting in the use of volume expansors with anti-aggregating properties and low dosage prophylactic heparin administration, authors have considerably improved their results reported in 1972, succeeding in diminishing the global mortality to 3.73%, a figure inferior to that of all known series to date.
- Published
- 1981