Four children with measles meningoencephalitis were treated with thymostimulin, a calf thymic extract. All patients were comatose when therapy was started. In all but one a good and sometimes rapid clinical improvement was observed. In the responsive patients no neurological or EEG sequellae were noted over a follow-up period of 1-4 years. The depression of cell-mediated immunity, present in some patients before treatment, normalised at the end of therapy.

Thymostimulin therapy in patients with measles meningoencephalitis.

TOVO, Pier Angelo;PALOMBA, Elvia Luana;MARTINO, Silvana;
1986-01-01

Abstract

Four children with measles meningoencephalitis were treated with thymostimulin, a calf thymic extract. All patients were comatose when therapy was started. In all but one a good and sometimes rapid clinical improvement was observed. In the responsive patients no neurological or EEG sequellae were noted over a follow-up period of 1-4 years. The depression of cell-mediated immunity, present in some patients before treatment, normalised at the end of therapy.
1986
8(1-2)
91
94
Tovo PA; Pugliese A; Palomba E; Delpiano AM; Martino S; Incarbone E.
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