[Intralymphatic administration of antibiotics in the complex treatment of suppurative complications in patients with neurosurgical pathology].

Abstract

The efficacy of endolymphatic route of gentamicin and ceporin administration was studied in 89 patients with neurosurgical pathological processes complicated by acute pneumonia (80 patients) and meningoencephalitis (9 patients) usually after ineffective antibiotic therapy according to the routine methods. The antibiotics were used in accordance with the antibiograms of the causative agents isolated from the bronchial tree or CSF. The endolymphatic use of gentamicin or ceporin once a day in doses of 80 mg or 1 g respectively provided rapid sanation and arresting of the inflammatory foci, lowering of the intoxication level, more rapid promotion of the positive time course of the clinico-roentgenological and laboratory indices and decreasing of the recovery periods by 1.5-2 times in 86 per cent of the patients with pneumonia. The endolymphatic administration of gentamicin in a dose of 80 mg twice a day or ceporin in a dose of 1 g twice a day allowed one to maintain the antibiotic therapeutic levels in the cerebrospinal fluid and to obtain satisfactory clinical results in the combined treatment of meningoencephalitis. The endolymphatic administration of the drugs was well tolerated by the patients and no adverse reactions were observed. This route of administration of antibiotics and in particular broad spectrum antibiotics may be recommended for urgent antibacterial therapy of especially severe neurosurgical patients with pyo-inflammatory complications and patients who did not respond to the routine antibiotic therapy.

• Authors: E G Shcherbakova, E P Popov, V M Rachkov, V P Raevskiĭ, A V Polinov
• Journal: Antibiotiki (Antibiotiki) Vol. 29 Issue 4 Pg. 286-91 (Apr 1984) ISSN: 0003-5637 [Print] Russia (Federation)
• Vernacular Title: Endolimfaticheskoe vvedenie antibiotikov v kompleksnom lechenii gnoĭnykn oslozhneniĭ u bol'nykh s neĭrokhirurgicheskoĭ patologieĭ.
• PMID: 6331289 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Gentamicins
• Cefotaxime

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Aged
• Brain Diseases (surgery)
• Cefotaxime (administration & dosage)
• Child
• Drug Therapy, Combination
• Female
• Gentamicins (administration & dosage)
• Humans
• Injections, Intralymphatic
• Male
• Meningoencephalitis (drug therapy)
• Middle Aged
• Pneumococcal Infections (drug therapy)
• Pneumonia (drug therapy)
• Pneumonia, Staphylococcal (drug therapy)
• Postoperative Complications (drug therapy)
• Proteus Infections (drug therapy)
• Proteus mirabilis
• Staphylococcus aureus