[Tactics in using antibiotics in diffuse forms of chronic nonspecific pneumonia in children].

The authors provide the results obtained during many years of studying different aspects of antibacterial treatment of purulent endobronchitis in children with prevalent forms of chronic pneumonia. The study was attempted at the clinic for disease of childhood, I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy. Base the complex program of such treatment, which rests on etiotropic , correspondence of the antibiotic administration to the activity of the infectious inflammatory process in the bronchi, and immunomodulating therapy carried out according to indications if any. Introduction of the antibiotic therapy program into clinical practice allowed the attainment of good direct results in 87.6% of patients and of stabilization of endobronchitis in 47% of patients within 1.5 to 3 years.