The Japanese Journal of Antibiotics
Online ISSN : 2186-5477
Print ISSN : 0368-2781
ISSN-L : 0368-2781
THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS OF IMIPENEM/CILASTATIN SODIUM AGAINST SEVERE INFECTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH HEMATOPOIETIC DISORDERS
NORIYUKI TATSUMITAISEI NINYUICHI SANNOMIYATAKASHI KAGEYAMAHIROSHI OHYABUKIYOSHI AKASAKAKAORI NASUTAKESHI YONEZAWANOBUHIKO TOMINAGATERUO KITANISHINICHI TAGAWATOHRU MASAOKAHIROTOSHI SHIBATAKOHJIRO YASUNAGAHIDEKI FUJITAKEMUNETO YOSHIOKAATSUSHI HORIUCHIHIROFUMI HASEGAWASHIRO NAKAYAMAKENICHI NAGAIHIROKI YABENOBUO YAMAGUCHIRYUKICHI RYOHIROYA KAWAGOEMITSUHIKO HIRATAKIYOYASU NAGAIYOSHINOBU TAKEMOTO
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1989 Volume 42 Issue 5 Pages 1065-1076

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Abstract

One hundred ninety-eight patients with severe infections associated with hematopoietic disorders were treated with imipenem/cilastatin sodium (IPM/CS), and the efficacy and safety of the drug were evaluated. The results obtained are summarized below.
1. Out of 182 patients in whom efficacies are evaluable, responses were excellent in 50 patients, good in 52, fair in 21 and poor in 59, and the efficacy rating was 56.0%.
2. The efficacy rating in 87 patients who had failed to respond to prior treatment with other antibiotics was 58.6%.
3. There were significant differences in efficacy ratings when patients were grouped according to differences the number of neutrophils after treatment, less than 100, 101,500 and over 501/mm3.
4. The eradication rate in 38 patients from whom causative organisms were isolated was 75.8%.
5. Out of 197 patients in whom the safety was evaluable, side effects were observed in 19 patients (9.6%) and abnormal laboratory test values in 15 (7.6%).

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