[Experience with treating complicated forms of abscessing pneumonia in children]. / Opyt lecheniia oslozhnennykh form abstsediruiushchikh pnevmonii u detei

Under observation were 157 patients with different forms of abscessing pneumonias. Pleural complicaitons were noted in 113 patients (about 60%). The complex treatment was employed in all patients (intensive antibacterial therapy, immunotherapy, bacteriophage, administration of protein preparations, vitamin-therapy, fresh blood transfusion, artery system and by means of percutaneous catheterization of th subclavian vein. The results of the treatment are described.