title: [Clinical evaluation of the tolerability of imipenem in the treatment of postoperative infections in oncologic surgery].
abstract: Fifteen neoplastic patients were examined in a pilot study to evaluate side effects and efficacy of imipenem (three doses of 500 mg/die, e.v.) as monochemotherapy of post-operative septic complications. These infections included: two wound infections, nine lung infections, one case of mixed infection (spread purulent peritonitis associated with lung infection), one case of urinary tract infection, one chronic suppurative malleolar ulcer in a patient with Kaposi's sarcoma, and one case of mediastinitis due to oesophageal perforation during endoscopic dilatation. Antibiotic treatment was successful in 14 patients, apyrexia being reached within 2nd to 13th day of treatment (median: 4th day) with negative microbiologic and radiologic assessment; only in the patient with chronic suppurative malleolar ulcer, notwithstanding apyrexia, microbiologic culture indicated the persistence of a pre-treatment pathogen (P. mirabilis). Side effects included only a slight and transient increase of serum transaminases in one patient.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Oncologia Chirurgica, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genova.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gipponi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Caroti
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oliva
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cafiero
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D004341:Drug Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015378:Imipenem / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D015378:Imipenem
vernacular_title: Valutazione clinica della tollerabilità dell'imipenem nel trattamento delle infezioni post-operatorie in oncologia chirurgica.