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REPORT OF TWO CASES TREATED WITH ISOPROTERENOL AND HEPARIN
Author(s) -
CELERMAJER J. M.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1966.tb01514.x
Subject(s) - medicine , heparin , isoprenaline , fulminant , shock (circulatory) , reversion , antibiotics , cardiology , anesthesia , microbiology and biotechnology , biochemistry , chemistry , stimulation , biology , gene , phenotype
SYNOPSIS Two cases of fulminant meningococcal septicaemia with clinical Waterhouse‐Friderichsen syndrome were treated with isoproterenol and heparin in addition to antibiotics and corticosteroids. The rapid reversion of shock and the subsequent recovery of the patients were probably attributable in major part to the use of isoproterenol (isoprenaline) and perhaps of heparin. The mechanism of this effect is briefly discussed.