Colistimethate sodium dry powder for inhalation: A review of its use in the treatment of chronic pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in patients with cystic fibrosis

Drugs

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 377-387

  Conole, Daniel ^a   Keating, Gillian M ^a  

^a ADIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLISTIMETHATE; COLISTIN; TOBRAMYCIN; COLISTINMETHANESULFONIC ACID;

ALBUMINURIA; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COUGHING; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRY POWDER; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INHALATION; LUNG FUNCTION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; REVIEW; TASTE DISORDER; THROAT IRRITATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; DRY POWDER INHALER; LUNG; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COLISTIN; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRY POWDER INHALERS; HUMANS; LUNG; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84895831609     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: 11791950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40265-014-0181-0     Document Type: Review

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