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Fifty-two patients with moderate or severe infections associated with internal medicine were treated with imipenem/cilastatin sodium (IPM/CS) and the efficacy and the safety of this drug were evaluated. There were 20 patients with pneumonia, 10 with acute exacerbation of chronic respiratory tract infections, 9 with sepsis, 2 with pyothorax, 3 with intraabdominal infection, 2 with urinary tract infection, 1 with pulmonary abscess, 1 with infective endocarditis, 4 with fever of unknown origin. Forty-four patients were evaluable for the efficacy. Clinical efficacies were excellent in 12 patients, good in 26, fair in 3 and poor in 3. The overall clinical efficacy was 86.4%. The efficacy rate was 63.6% in patients previously treated and 93.9% in patients previously untreated with other antibiotics. Bacteriologically, Staphylococcus aureus (8 strains), Streptococcus pneumoniae (5), Streptococcus pyogenes (1), other Gram-positive coccus (1), Klebsiella pneumoniae (8), Haemophilus influenzae (4), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (3), Serratia marcescens (3), Escherichia coli (3), Branhamella catarrhalis (1), Citrobacter freundii (1), Klebsiella oxytoca (1), Enterobacter sp. (1), and Peptostreptococcus sp. (1) were eradicated. P. aeruginosa (3) and Acinetobacter sp. (1) decreased. S. aureus (1), S. epidermidis (1), P. aeruginosa (5), and S. marcescens (1) persisted or appeared. The eradication rate was 83.7%. Six patients showed adverse reactions including general fatigue 1, epigastralgia 1, eruption 1, eosinophilia 1 and elevation of S-GOT 2. But all of the adverse reactions were mild or slight, and transient. These findings indicate that IPM/CS is a useful and safe drug against bacterial infections in internal medicine.
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PMID:[Clinical evaluation of imipenem/cilastatin sodium in the internal medicine]. 192 Aug 13

A 46-year-old man had been given 40mg prednisolone daily for systemic lupus erythematosus. He complained of fever and general fatigue and chest computed tomography revealed wide-spread consolidation with multiple cavity formation in his left lung. Pulmonary nocardiosis was clinically suspected because we detected nocardia from Gram staining of sputum. He was cured by sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim, Imipenem/Cilastatin, although a cavity with a slightly thickened wall in the left lung remained. Nocardia asteroides was cultured from sputum and pulmonary nocardiosis was diagnosed. The present case was pulmonary nocardiosis that spread with multiple and extensive cavity formation. A good outcome was obtained by early treatment with sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim.
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PMID:[A case of pulmonary nocardiosis cured by early sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim therapy]. 1776 95

A 78-year-old woman who had been treated for two years with ITCZ for chronic pulmonary aspergillosis associated with prior pulmonary tuberculosis was admitted to our hospital because of general fatigue and hemosputum along with deterioration of her chest radiographic findings. Mycobacterium abscessus had been isolated once from her sputum one year before admission. We performed fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) in order to help establish a final diagnosis. Sputum aspirated from her bronchus on FOB stained positive for acid-fast bacilli and was negative for Tbc and MAC using PCR. From these results, we diagnosed the patient with pulmonary M. abscessus infection. Chemotherapy with AMK, IPM/cs, and CAM was initiated. Because her symptoms rapidly improved, we switched the chemotherapy to long-term oral CAM and LVFX, and she has been in a good condition at 12 months after the initiation of the therapy. Recently, subtypes of M. abscessus complex, such as M. massiliense, have been recognized, which are more sensitive to chemotherapy. Considering the good response to therapy, there is a possibility that is the patient in the current case had a M. massiliense infection.
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PMID:[A CASE OF PULMONARY MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS INFECTION SUCCESSFULLY TREATED WITH SHORT-TERM CAM, AMK, AND IPM/cs FOLLOWED BY LONG-TERM ORAL CAM AND LVFX]. 2648 57