Retrospective Study of Nephrotoxicity Rate among Adult Patients Receiving Colistin Compared to β-lactam Antibiotics.
Ghafur A, Bansal N, Devarajan V, Raja T, Easow J, Raja MA, Sreenivas S, Ramakrishnan B, Raman SG, Devaprasad D, Nimmagadda R.
Ghafur A, et al.
Indian J Crit Care Med. 2019 Nov;23(11):518-522. doi: 10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23276.
Indian J Crit Care Med. 2019.
PMID: 31911743
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Even though the colistin arm had significantly higher number of sicker patients with neutropenia (40.7% vs 14.4%, p = 0.0001), mechanical ventilation (0.0001), having lines (0.0001), on inotropes (0.003), receiving other nephrotoxic drugs (0.0001), and higher Pitt score (p = 0.00 …
Even though the colistin arm had significantly higher number of sicker patients with neutropenia (40.7% vs 14.4%, p = 0.0001), mechanical ve …