scholarly journals Outcome of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Lower Respiratory Tract Disease in Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients Receiving Aerosolized Ribavirin: Significance of Stem Cell Source and Oxygen Requirement

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sachiko Seo ◽  
Angela P. Campbell ◽  
Hu Xie ◽  
Jason W. Chien ◽  
Wendy M. Leisenring ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Transplant ◽  
Transplant Recipients ◽  
Respiratory Tract Disease ◽  
Oxygen Requirement ◽  
Hematopoietic Cell Transplant ◽  
Stem Cell Source ◽  
Lower Respiratory Tract Disease ◽  
Cell Source ◽  
Syncytial Virus ◽  
Tract Disease

Ribavirin. Red Book Committee Recommendations Questioned

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 672-673
Author(s):  
Ellen R. Wald ◽  
Barry Dashefsky
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Lower Respiratory Tract ◽  
Respiratory Tract Disease ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Lower Respiratory Tract Disease ◽  
Rsv Infection ◽  
Syncytial Virus ◽  
Tract Disease ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
Do So

The new guidelines provided by the Committee on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics on the Use of Ribavirin in the Treatment of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV) are perplexing and prompt concern: "Ribavirin treatment is recommended for the following patients hospitalized with RSV lower respiratory tract disease: a. infants at high risk for severe or complicated RSV infection, including those with complicated congenital heart disease (including pulmonary hypertension); those with bronchopulmonary dysplasia, . . ."1,pp502-503 The accompanying qualifier that "the recommendations in this statement do not indicate an exclusive course of treatment or procedure to be followed"1,p501 is important but insufficient to dampen the effect of the Committee's decision to change its former stance of merely urging consideration of the use of ribavirin for patients at high risk for complications2 to an unequivocal recommendation to do so.

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