Cefetamet pivoxil in paediatric patients suffering from lower respiratory tract infections.
Pharmatherapeutica
; 5(6): 423-8, 1989.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-2687898
ABSTRACT
A prospective, randomized comparative trial was carried out in 31 children suffering from lower respiratory tract infections, mainly bronchopneumonia or pneumonia. Twenty-one children received oral cefetamet pivoxil in a dose of 20 mg/kg/day (10 children) or 40 mg/kg/day (11 children), and 10 children 30 mg cefaclor/kg/day for 7 days. Clinical signs and symptoms, i.e. fever, dyspnoea, altered breath sounds and cough, subsided during treatment with both cefetamet pivoxil treatment doses in all patients. All X-ray findings and blood leucocytosis normalized, while 1 out of the 10 children to whom 30 mg cefaclor/kg/day was administered deteriorated from bronchopneumonia to pneumonitis during treatment. Treatment was stopped due to vomiting in 1 patient receiving the 40 mg cefetamet pivoxil/kg/day dose.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Infecções Respiratórias
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Ceftizoxima
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
Limite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
1989
Tipo de documento:
Article