Severe swine flu may be helped with chemotherapy
Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 10:20
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital report in The Lancet on the use of a new treatment concept to combat severe swine flu. One of the very sick patients, being cared for with a heart-lung machine at the hospital, deteriorated further after a number of weeks. With an aim to break the vicious circle, the physicians tried a combination of chemotherapy and cortisone, after which the patient's condition improved rapidly.