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Report of Two Premature Infants Treated With Systemic Use of Idoxuridine

Gordon A. Tuffli, MD; Andre J. Nahmias, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1969;118(6):909-914.

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ALTHOUGH the prognosis in herpes simplex encephalitis remains unclear in view of problems inherent in providing laboratory confirmation of diagnoses,¹ reports in current literature^2-8 indicate the disease is severe, often fatal, frequently leaving survivors with neurological sequelae.

Until recently, treatment consisted largely of supportive care, with occasional administration of -globulin or hyperimmune plasma. During the past three years, several authors described beneficial results in herpes simplex encephalitis with systemic use of idoxuridine (5-iodo-2'-deoxyuridine).^8-13 However, no one has reported experience with systemic use of idoxuridine in the premature infant. Partridge and Millis¹⁴ used intravenously administered idoxuridine in a combined, five-day course of intermittent and continuous infusion in a newborn term infant with systemic herpes simplex. The infant received a total dose of 580 mg/kg and showed clinical improvement, with no toxicity noted. The infant died later, probably from the effect of secondary bacterial infection.

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Author Affiliations
Madison, Wis; Atlanta

From the Department of Pediatrics, Jackson Clinic and University Hospitals, Madison, Wis (Dr. Tuffli), and the Department of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta (Dr. Nahmias).

Footnotes
Received for publication Aug 28, 1968.

Reprint requests to the Department of Pediatrics, Jackson Clinic, 30 S Henry St, Madison, Wis 53703 (Dr. Tuffli).

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