title: Clinical experience in Germany of treating community-acquired respiratory infections with the new 8-methoxyfluoroquinolone, moxifloxacin.
abstract: Moxifloxacin, a new 8-methoxyfluoroquinolone, was evaluated in a large community-based study involving 16,007 patients over a 9-month period. This study was designed as a large post-marketing observational study of the speed, efficacy and tolerability of moxifloxacin when used in clinical practice for the treatment of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia, or acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis. Physicians and patients were specifically questioned about overall efficacy and safety as well as symptom relief. According to physicians' assessments 96.3% of patients were cured or improved after moxifloxacin treatment. Symptom relief ('feeling better') occurred in almost 70% of patients by day 3 and only 2.3% reported an adverse drug reaction. No individual adverse drug reaction was reported at a frequency above 1%. Among the 209 events considered as serious, only 34 were regarded as possibly or probably related to therapy. There were no moxifloxacin-related clinically relevant cases of phototoxicity, hepatotoxicity or cardiotoxicity. Overall, 92.1% of patients considered moxifloxacin to have been beneficial.
authors.affiliation: Bayer Vital GmbH, Leverkusen, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Landen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Möller
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Tillotson
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kubin
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Höffken
mesh_terms: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001372:Aza Compounds; D001991:Bronchitis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D024841:Fluoroquinolones; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D000077266:Moxifloxacin; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011804:Quinolines
chemical_list: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D001372:Aza Compounds; D024841:Fluoroquinolones; D011804:Quinolines; D000077266:Moxifloxacin