Optimal treatment of urinary tract infections in elderly patients

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 352-362

  Wood, Craig A ^a,c   Abrutyn, Elias ^a,b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ALLEGHENY UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTACID AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BUMETANIDE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ETACRYNIC ACID; FLUCONAZOLE; FUROSEMIDE; GANCICLOVIR; IRON; NITROFURANTOIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PHENYTOIN; PROBENECID; PROCAINAMIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; THEOPHYLLINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYSTITIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG TOXICITY; EOSINOPHILIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; HEADACHE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; INSOMNIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEUKOPENIA; MALAISE; MYOCLONUS; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OTOTOXICITY; PHLEBITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PYELONEPHRITIS; RASH; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

EID: 0029958341     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-199609050-00006     Document Type: Review

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