[Comparative pharmacokinetics of antibiotics in blood, csf and brain]

Neurochirurgie. 1993;39(6):380-4.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The Knowledge of the antibiotic's cerebral diffusion is essential to define a of neurosurgical antibioprophylaxis' strategy. Without references in the medical world-literature, we've decided to compare the pharmacological kinetics in the blood, the cerebrospinal fluid and the sound cerebral tissue of common used molecules in neurosurgery that is to say: amoxicillin, cefamandole, metronidazole and pefloxacin. The results show that the cerebral levels of metronidazole and pefloxacine are rapidly high with an extended duration (> 10 times the M.I.C. of the sensitive bacteriae), but the tissue penetration of amoxicillin is hazardous and shot-duration for cefamandole (undosable after 3 hours).

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Amoxicillin / pharmacokinetics
  • Amoxicillin / therapeutic use
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacokinetics*
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
  • Blood / metabolism*
  • Brain / metabolism*
  • Brain Neoplasms / metabolism*
  • Brain Neoplasms / surgery
  • Cefamandole / pharmacokinetics
  • Cefamandole / therapeutic use
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid / metabolism*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Metronidazole / pharmacokinetics
  • Metronidazole / therapeutic use
  • Middle Aged
  • Pefloxacin / pharmacokinetics
  • Pefloxacin / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Metronidazole
  • Pefloxacin
  • Cefamandole
  • Amoxicillin