These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Treatment of respiratory syncytial virus infections in immunocompromised hematological patients].
    Author: Thorsen S, Hornsleth AK, Pedersen BK, Heilmann CJ.
    Journal: Ugeskr Laeger; 2000 Aug 28; 162(35):4644-7. PubMed ID: 10986889.
    Abstract:
    Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) accounts for considerable morbidity among infants and elderly, that are otherwise immunocompetent. Immunocompromised haematological patients--in particular bone marrow transplant (BMT) recipients with leukopenia--are at high risk for severe, usually fatal, RSV-pneumonia. No randomized, placebo-controlled studies of aerosolized ribavirin for BMT patients with RSV-pneumonia have been conducted, or can be anticipated. We summarize existing case reports providing circumstantial evidence in favour of an active diagnostic and early therapeutic approach to these patients.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]