Amphotericin B formulations: A comparative review of efficacy and toxicity

Drugs

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 919-934

  Hamill, Richard J ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B CHOLESTEROL SULFATE; AMPHOTERICIN B DEOXYCHOLATE; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHILL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEVER; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GLYCOLYSIS; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; INFUSION RELATED REACTION; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; KIDNEY; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID SOLUBILITY; LIVER; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG; MACROPHAGE; MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PHAGOCYTE; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PLASMA CONCENTRATION-TIME CURVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPLEEN; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; FUNGI; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MYCOSES;

EID: 84879484305     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: 11791950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40265-013-0069-4     Document Type: Review

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