支气管肺炎是小儿发病率及病死率较高的疾病,过去病死率曾高达25～30%。自从抗菌素问世以后,病死率已大大降低(5.1%),但肺炎仍为小儿致死的主要疾病之一,其中死亡原因以心力衰竭为最多。关于肺炎心衰的处理,过去学者认为洋地黄治疗无效,甚或有害;但苏联玛氏提出了相反的意见,认为肺炎出现心血管机能紊乱症状时,可用洋地黄类 Bronchial pneumonia is a high morbidity and mortality in children, the past case fatality rate as high as 25 to 30%. Mortality has dropped significantly since the advent of antibiotics (5.1%), but pneumonia remains one of the leading causes of death in children, with the most common cause of death being heart failure. Regarding the treatment of pneumonia with heart failure, in the past, scholars considered that digitalis treatment was ineffective or even harmful. However, Marseille of the Soviet Union put forward the opposite opinion that when the symptom of pneumonia is cardiovascular disorder,