Low dose intraperitoneal ciprofloxacin for the treatment of peritonitis in patients receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD)
- 1 July 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
- Vol. 28 (1) , 131-139
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/28.1.131
Abstract
Ciprofloxacin at a dose of 25 mg/L of dialysate was administered intraperitoneally for five days as a single agent for the empirical treatment of CAPD peritonitis. One hundred and seventeen consecutive episodes of peritonitis occurred in 65 patients during the study period, and 100 episodes were entered in the study. This therapy was successful in 79% of episodes. Resistant organisms (MIC >4 mg/L), all of them coagulase-negative staphylococci, were isolated in nine (7.8%) of the 117 episodes. Mean ciprofloxacin concentrations in dialysate and serum on the last day of treatment were 6.1 mg/L (range 0.3–15.7 and 0.3 mg/L (range 0–0.9) respectively. No adverse effects were reported.Keywords
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