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E Novac

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[Risks of therapy in infectious shock].

On the basis of their experience in the intensive therapy unit, correlated with modern pharmacokinetic data, the authors discuss the adverse effects induced by polyvalent therapy in septic shock, and which may be listed in the group of iatrogenic pathointerference. To the biochemical and functional alterations of shock may be added the possible effects of antibioticotherapy, corticotherapy, plasma expanders, lipid emulsions, crystalloid solutions, alkaline correcting solutions, osmotic diuretics, oxygenotherapy, vasoactive drugs, heparin and epsilon-amino-caproic acid. The possible summation of these effects should be indicated in the rules for observance by the medical staff of intensive therapy units.

Aminocaproic Acid↗

[Recent studies of physiopathology of the infectious process. 3 major pathogenetic models].

With reference to recent bibliographical data and their own experience, the authors discuss the existence of three major mechanisms (models) in toxi-infectious aggression, namely: -- direct, cellular, performed by toxin-enzymes, aggressins, hemolysins, invasins, cytopathogenic effects; -- unspecifically mediated (by nervous or humoral mediators); -- specific mediators (by immune effectors, humoral immunoaggressive mechanisms or cellular induced mechanisms). The text is illustrated by examples with reference to aetiological entities than can be listed in the corresponding pathogenetic system and therapeutical lines.

Bacterial Infections↗

[Current possibilities of optimizing emergency tetanus immunization].

Retrospective analysis of the tetanus cases, admitted over a six year period, shows the high risks involved by the insufficient immunoprotection. The failure of emergency immunization, with its effects on the incidence and evolution of the disease, may be accounted for by : the difficulty in establishing the vaccination past history, probable decrease of protection with time due to basal immunization, inconstant response to the booster dose, immunodepressive side effects, the drawbacks of antitoxic serum. With reference to their own experience and the published data concerning the methods applied for obtaining a more rapid response to anatoxin and possible optimizing of the protective titre concurrent with the incubation period of tetanus. Experimental investigations have demonstrated the superiority of repeated, multifocal inoculations for obtaining an earlier antitoxic immunity.

Age Factors↗