A reduced linezolid dosage maintains favorable efficacy with minimal hematologic toxicity in a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-infected patient with renal insufficiency

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 77-80

  Taguchi, Kazuaki ^a   Miyakawa, Toshikazu ^a   Ohmura, Takafumi ^a   Horio, Momoko ^a   Anraku, Yoshihisa ^b   Okada, Tatsuya ^a   Mizuta, Hiroshi ^a   Saito, Hideyuki ^a   Kawaguchi, Tatsuya ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b SAISEIKAI KUMAMOTO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Linezolid; Renal insufficiency; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LINEZOLID;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; PHARMACODYNAMICS; SURGICAL INFECTION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND IRRIGATION;

ACETAMIDES; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OXAZOLIDINONES; PLATELET COUNT; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84871370272     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365548.2012.708783     Document Type: Article

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