Clinical and Microbiological Impact
of Inhaled Tobramycin Treatment on Cystic Fibrosis Patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Francesca
Dickhaus1, Mutasim Abu Hasan2, Elizabeth Tremblay3,
Kenneth Klinker4, Kenneth Rand5,6
Stacy G.
Beal5
ABSTRACT
Objective: Patients’ with cystic fibrosis respiratory systems
become colonized with pathogens as early as the first year of life. Some organisms are associated with a decline
in pulmonary function and shortened survival, such as a mucoid strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA).
Methods: We
conducted a four year retrospective chart review study examining 158 pediatric
and adult cystic fibrosis patients treated at an academic, tertiary care
institution to compare patients treated by different antimicrobial regimens.
Results: A
higher proportion of mucoid PA study patients received alternate-monthly
tobramycin therapy (83.3%), compared to those with non-mucoid PA (62.5%);
although a large percentage of patients who had never had a mucoid PA infection
were also receiving alternate-monthly tobramycin. Patients who had a mucoid PA
infection had more hospitalizations and for longer periods of time than
patients who had a non-mucoid PA infection; both mucoid and non-mucoid PA
patients were hospitalized more often than patients who had never had a PA
infection. We additionally found patients with mucoid PA infections to have
strains that were either resistant or had intermediate resistance to
tobramycin. Similar trends in resistance were not seen in patients who only
received intermittent treatments with tobramycin.
Conclusions Our findings on increased rates of infection with
both Aspergillus (in the alternate-monthly inhaled tobramycin group) and NTM
(in the overall patient population) comparative to international averages were
also interesting, and open the doors to future research regarding CF patients
with these infections. J Microbiol Infect
Dis 2017; 7(4):178-185
Keywords:Cystic fibrosis,
Pseudomonas, Tobramycin
Konular | Sağlık Kurumları Yönetimi |
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Bölüm | Research Article |
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Yayımlanma Tarihi | 1 Aralık 2017 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2017 Cilt: 07 Sayı: 04 |