It is a well-known principle that endogenous creatinine clearance correlates well with the
renal elimination of most medications [1–4]. Be that as it may, it is a common oversight for …

The glycopeptide antibacterial drugs vancomycin and teicoplanin are widely used in
hospitals for therapy of severe or multiresistant Gram‐positive infections, notably …

Antimicrobial therapy should be designed on the basis of microbiological, as well as
pharmacokinetic, criteria; microbiological parameters provide information about the …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a sustained-
release sheet with vancomycin (VCM) to prevent prosthetic graft infection. METHODS: VCM …

Growth and maturational changes have been identified as significant covariates in
describing variability in clearance of renally excreted drugs such as vancomycin. Because of …

The glycopeptide and lipoglycopeptide antibiotics are natural antibiotics obtained from
cultures of certain microorganisms. These antibiotics inhibit bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan …

Based on the principle that vancomycin therapy requires sustained therapeutic
concentrations while avoiding high peaks, some authors reported that optimal vancomycin …

The vancomycin dose for hemodialysis (HD) patients should be adjusted by monitoring drug
serum concentrations. However, this procedure is not available in most health services in …

Sixty-seven hospitalized bacteremic patients on chronic hemodialysis were matched with
134 bacteremic controls. Mortality (25% and 28% respectively) was unrelated to dialysis …

El largo y sinuoso camino de la farmacia clinica en Chile SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library
Online vol.151 número1 Consumo de tabaco en pacientes hospitalizados en Clínica Alemana …