Nephrotoxicity and Efficacy Assessment of Polymyxin Use in 92 Transplant Patients
Nephrotoxicity and Efficacy Assessment of Polymyxin Use in 92 Transplant Patients
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DOI:
10.1128/aac.01329-12
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发表时间:
2013-03-01
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
Camargo, Luis Fernando A.
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作者:
Mostardeiro, Marcelo M.;Pereira, Carlos A. P.;Camargo, Luis Fernando A.
Polymyxins are old antimicrobials, discontinued for many years because of nephrotoxicity and neurotoxicity reports and reintroduced recently due to the increasing frequency of multiresistant Gram-negative bacterial infections. There are very few data related to toxicity and efficacy from transplanted patients, the major subjects of this study. All solid-organ-transplanted patients from our institution during January 2001 to December 2007 who used polymyxins were retrospectively assessed for nephrotoxicity and treatment efficacy. Microbiological and clinical cure rates were 100% and 77.2%, respectively. Only transplant patients subjected to at least 72 h of intravenous polymyxin were entered in the study. Overall, 92 transplant patients were included, and the nephrotoxicity rate was 32.6%. Multivariate analysis showed a statistically significant association between duration of polymyxin treatment (P = 0.037; odds ratio [OR], 1.06; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.00 to 1.12) and significant renal dysfunction. Polymyxin use is associated with very high rates of significant decrease in renal function; therefore, polymyxin must be used only when no other option is available and for as briefly as possible in the solid organ transplant setting.