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Viral hemorrhagic fevers: advancing the level of treatment

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Viral hemorrhagic fevers: advancing the level of treatment
المؤلفون: Ippolito Giuseppe, Feldmann Heinz, Lanini Simone, Vairo Francesco, Di Caro Antonino, Capobianchi Maria, Nicastri Emanuele
المصدر: BMC Medicine, Vol 10, Iss 1, p 31 (2012)
بيانات النشر: BMC, 2012.
سنة النشر: 2012
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
مصطلحات موضوعية: clinical management, innovative therapeutics, viral hemorrhagic fever, Medicine
الوصف: Abstract The management of viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) has mainly focused on strict infection control measures, while standard clinical interventions that are provided to patients with other life-threatening conditions are rarely offered to patients with VHFs. Despite its complexity, a proper clinical case management of VHFs is neither futile nor is it lacking in scientific rationale. Given that patient outcomes improve when treatment is started as soon as possible, development and implementation of protocols to promptly identify and treat patients in the earliest phases of diseases are urgently needed. Different pharmacological options have been proposed to manage patients and, as for other life-threatening conditions, advanced life support has been proved effective to address multiorgan failure. In addition, high throughput screening of small molecular libraries has emerged as a novel promising way to find new candidates drugs for VHFs therapy and a relevant number of new molecules are currently under investigation. Here we discuss the current knowledge about VHF clinical management to propose a way to step up the approach to VHFs beyond the mere application of infection control measures.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1741-7015
Relation: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/10/31; https://doaj.org/toc/1741-7015
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-10-31
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/6056c3de53c24d6cb89abcbb2d5e2be0
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.6056c3de53c24d6cb89abcbb2d5e2be0
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:17417015
DOI:10.1186/1741-7015-10-31