Experience using antihypoxic drugs in the treatment of acute neurosensory hearing loss in children with meningitis
Ryndina, A.M.; Lin'kov, V.I.; Dadiomova, M.A.; Buriakova, A.V.
Vestnik Otorinolaringologii 2: 14-17
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4668 PMID: 2728172 Document Number: 334914
This paper describes beneficial affects of the therapy of neurosensory hypoacusia that complicated such neuroinfectious diseases as meningococcemia, meningococcic meningitis and meningitides of other etiology using traditional drugs (ATP, aloe, B and C vitamins) in combination with the antihypoxic agent gutimine and its analog. Positive effects were recorded in 17 (81%) out of 21 children. It is indicated that the agent shows higher efficacy when used within the first weeks after the onset of the disease.