[The use of specific immunoglobulin for the treatment of children with acute herpetic encephalitis].

The use of specific immunoglobulin in combination with conventional agents of pathogenetic and symptomatic therapy was over two times more potent in reducing the lethality due to herpetic encephalitis. The residual phenomena in the survivors were also less pronounced in those given specific immunoglobulin. A relationship has been discovered between the outcomes of herpetic encephalitis and the time since the treatment with specific immunoglobulin was instituted, the rate of coma development and its intensity at the moment of the therapy onset.

[Myocardial contractility and hemodynamic indicators in newborn infants with acute respiratory viral infections].

A study was made of myocardial contractility, of the central and peripheral hemodynamics in infants with acute respiratory viral infections. Stable disorders of the phasic structure of contraction and relaxation of the left and right ventricles of the heart combined with an appreciable rise of the pressure in the pulmonary artery were disclosed. It has been found necessary to administer both remedies improving myocardial metabolism and cardiotonic drugs.