title: Biliary elimination of cefotiam, an experimental and clinical study.
abstract: Five isolated rabbit livers were in vitro perfused over a 3-hour period. After addition of 10 mg of cefotiam to the circulating blood, a biliary peak concentration of 76.2 +/- 14.2 micrograms/ml (mean +/- SEM) was reached between the 90th and 120th min; 3.1 +/- 0.4% of the dose given was excreted in the bile during the 3-hour period. In 10 recently cholecystectomized patients provided with a T-tube drain, 1 g of cefotiam was given intravenously. A biliary peak concentration of 340 +/- 81 micrograms/ml was observed 2 h later. 1.8 +/- 0.7% of the administered dose was recovered in the bile during the 12-hour period. In 5 clinically normal subjects given intravenously 1 g of cefotiam, 0.5 +/- 0.2% of the administered dose was found in the duodenal fluid aspirated over a 4-hour period. Cefotiam concentrations measured in choledochal and gallbladder bile collected simultaneously during operation 1 h after intravenous administration of 1 g of the drug to 10 patients were 502 +/- 102 micrograms/ml and 143 +/- 39 micrograms/ml, respectively; they exceeded significantly the concentration determined in the serum sampled at the same time (17.9 +/- 2.6 micrograms/ml). The biliary parameters of cefotiam were compared with those of 14 other beta-lactam antibiotics previously studied by the same procedure. The results of the present study are consistent with a possible beneficial effect of cefotiam in the treatment of biliary tract infections.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Brogard
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Arnaud
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Blickle
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dorner
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lautier
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001646:Bile / Q000378:metabolism*; D002439:Cefotaxime / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism; D015310:Cefotiam; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D004322:Drainage; D004386:Duodenum; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007700:Kinetics; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D008657:Metabolic Clearance Rate; D010477:Perfusion; D011817:Rabbits
chemical_list: D015310:Cefotiam; D002439:Cefotaxime