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Provedor de dados: | 55
País: | Brazil
Título: | Indications of a new antibiotic in clinical practice: results of the tigecycline initial use registry
Autores: | Curcio,Daniel; Fernández,Francisco; Cané,Alejandro; Barcelona,Laura; Stamboulian,Daniel.
Data: | 2008-06-01
Ano: | 2008
Palavras-chave: | Tigecycline; Off-label; Ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Resumo: | Tigecycline is the first of a new class of antibiotics named glycylcyclines and it was approved for the treatment of complicated intra-abdominal infections and complicated skin and skin structure infections. Notwithstanding this, tigecycline's pharmacological and microbiological profile which includes multidrug-resistant pathogens encourages physicians' use of the drug in other infections. We analyzed, during the first months after its launch, the tigecycline prescriptions for 113 patients in 12 institutions. Twenty-five patients (22%) received tigecycline for approved indications, and 88 (78%) for "off label" indications (56% with scientific support and 22% with limited or without any scientific support). The most frequent "off label" use was ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) (63 patients). The etiology of infections was established in 105 patients (93%). MDR-Acinetobacter spp. was the microorganism most frequently isolated (50% of the cases). Overall, attending physicians reported clinical success in 86 of the 113 patients (76%). Our study shows that the "off label" use of tigecycline is frequent, especially in VAP. due to MDR-Acinetobacter spp., where the therapeutic options are limited (eg: colistin). Physicians must evaluate the benefits/risks of using this antibiotic for indications that lack rigorous scientific support.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702008000300007
Editor: | Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
Relação: | 10.1590/S1413-86702008000300007
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.12 n.3 2008
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess