PEDIATRICS Vol. 48 No. 1 July 1971, pp. 162-164
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Therapeutic Considerations in Reye's Syndrome

R. E. Brown M.D.1 and C. E. Madge M.D.1

1 Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219

The article by Pross, et al.1 emphasizes the urgency of finding a suitable treatment for Reye's syndrome. This is underscored by the fact that most patients with this syndrome do not survive as noted in their article; that most conventional forms of therapy such as intravenous glucose, electrolyte and fluid replacement, and glucocorticoids do not seem to arrest the encephalopathy; and that as more physicians become acquainted with the syndrome the recognized incidence should increase.