Basing on the own experience, the authors discuss causative treatment of sepsis, mainly of unknown etiology. Emphasis is on the depression of immunological system in the acute phase of the disease. Therefore, a combined treatment with 2, often 3 or even 4 bacterial antibiotics is recommended, together with passive immunotherapy, and in certain cases surgical removal of the infection foci.
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World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg
April 2010
Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
The aim of this study was to evaluate experience and predictors of early mortality in patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS)-type defects undergoing Norwood procedure (NP) with right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery (RV-PA) shunt. Between 2001 and 2009, a consecutive series of 229 children with HLHS-type single ventricle underwent NP with application of RV-PA shunt. Demographic, echocardiographic, and clinical perioperative data were retrospectively analyzed.
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June 1996
Kliniki Chorób Zakaźnych dla Dorosłych Instytutu Chorób Zakaźnych i Pasozytniczych AM w Warszawie.
Basing on the own experience, the authors discuss causative treatment of sepsis, mainly of unknown etiology. Emphasis is on the depression of immunological system in the acute phase of the disease. Therefore, a combined treatment with 2, often 3 or even 4 bacterial antibiotics is recommended, together with passive immunotherapy, and in certain cases surgical removal of the infection foci.
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