In patients with severe acute ischemic stroke, cerebrolysin therapy decreased clinical pneumonia frequency compared with the control group.
In plain wordsIn patients with severe stroke, cerebrolysin therapy reduced pneumonia frequency compared with the control group.
- Peptide
- Cerebrolysin
- Outcome
- DecreaseClinical pneumonia frequency
- Study
n = 140
- Comparator
- Control group
- Outcome group
- Infection and antimicrobial activity · Respiratory
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated
Source sentences
It is established that the proposed neuroimmunocorrection therapy with cerebrolysin decreases the frequency of the clinical pneumonia development.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Neuroimmunocorrection therapy with cerebrolysin has been used for the prophylaxis of clinical pneumonia development in the early stage of acute stroke in a group of 140 patients with heavy clinical course of acute ischemic stroke (AIS).
All patients in the test and control groups received the basal anti-AIS therapy and antibacterial drugs (IV-generation cephalosporins) in case of pneumonia development.