title: Maternal-fetal pharmacology of cefatrizine in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy.
abstract: To evaluate maternal-fetal pharmacology of cefatrizine (BL-S 640), a new oral cephalosporin, a single oral 1,000-mg dose was administered to 33 gravidas (8 to 20 weeks' gestation) at varying intervals within 46 h of an elective therapeutic abortion by hysterectomy or intra-amniotic prostaglandin F(2a) induction. Mean maternal serum concentrations at 1, 2, 4, and 8 h were 3.7, 7.9, 6.5, and 1.6 mug/ml; beyond a 3-h peak, a half-life of 2.4 h was determined. Cefatrizine placental half-life was 4.4 h. None of the 11 fetuses from a prostaglandin F(2a) abortion revealed cefatrizine activity; in contrast, 17 of 22 fetuses from a surgical abortion demonstrated cefatrizine concentrations in two or more samples. Fetal cefatrizine levels were less than 3 mug/g or mug/ml in kidney and urine, less than 2 mug/ml in serum and bile, and less than 2.5 mug/g in lung. After a single maternal dose, cefatrizine has a wide distribution in the fetus in the first half of gestation.
mesh_terms: D000653:Amniotic Fluid / Q000378:metabolism; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000378:metabolism*; D001646:Bile / Q000378:metabolism; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism; D002511:Cephalosporins / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000378:metabolism; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D008168:Lung / Q000378:metabolism; D008431:Maternal-Fetal Exchange; D010920:Placenta / Q000378:metabolism; D011247:Pregnancy; D011261:Pregnancy Trimester, First; D011262:Pregnancy Trimester, Second
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D002511:Cephalosporins