Abstract
Fundamentals and clinical applications of the low and high polymerised PVP are outlined and some clinical cases of the authors' experience are presented.
Clinical applications of PVP such as plasms expander, antidote, hemostatic, and hydro-metabolism adjusting agent are covered, and also reported are such applications as an anti-allergic agent and applications to virus diseases that have not been referred to so far. As an antidote, its action against streptomycin toxication is referred to especially and as a hydro-metabolism adjusting agent, its clinical application to cases of Meniere's syndrome is covered. Also the actions of low and high polymerised PVP to the “Winterschlaf-Narkose” were reported. The low promoted an awakening from it, and contrariwise, the high had a depot-action on it.
Regarding the characteristics of PVP, the wide field of its application is stressed clinically as well as theoretically with the aid of examples.
