Open AccessConservative Treatment of Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis in Children
Author(s) -
A. P. Berezhniy,
А. А. Очкуренко
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
vestnik travmatologii i ortopedii imeni n.n. priorova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2658-6738
pISSN - 0869-8678
DOI - 10.17816/vto104392
Subject(s) - medicine , conservative treatment , osteomyelitis , surgery , medical treatment , intervention (counseling) , conservative management , disease , medical record , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , psychiatry
The experience in diagnosis (52 patients) and treatment (35 patients) of chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis in children is presented. In 17 patients conservative treatment was accompanied by surgical intervention. Eighteen patients received the conservative treatment only. Analysis covering medical documentation and authors observation showed that antibacterial therapy that was performed both before hospitalization of patients to CITO (20 patients) and at the institute (21 patients) was ineffective. Original scheme of conservative treatment with application of hormonal, nonsteroid antiinflammatory and metabolic therapy is given. Long term complex therapy proved sufficiently high efficacy of that treatment method and allowed to overcome the pessimism in prognosis of that disease.