Clinical efficacy of intravenous colistin therapy in combination with ceftazidime in severe MDR P. aeruginosa systemic infections in two haematological patients

Infezioni in Medicina

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-44

  Tascini, Carlo ^a   Menichetti, Francesco ^a   Stefanelli, Alessandro ^b   Loni, Carlo ^b   Lambelet, Paola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Ospedale Unico della Versilia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colistin; Haematological patients; P. aeruginosa; Systemic infection

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; COLISTIN; CYTARABINE; FLUDARABINE; IDARUBICIN; IMIPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON RESECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MYELODYSPLASIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; STENOSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED; ANEMIA, REFRACTORY, WITH EXCESS OF BLASTS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BACTEREMIA; CEFTAZIDIME; COLISTIN; COLITIS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE, L2; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RADIATION INJURIES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TYPHLITIS;

EID: 33745214024     PISSN: 11249390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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