Designing dose regimen for teicoplanin by using nomogram

• In: Hospital Pharmacy Section - Poster session
• At: Cairo (Egypt) (2005)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: HPS-P-043
• By: TAKEDA, Yasuo (Kagoshima University, Clinical Pharm. and Pharmacol., Kagoshima, Japan)
• Co-author(s): Matsumoto (Kagoshima University, KAGOSHIMA, Japan)
  Miyagoe (Kagoshima University, KAGOSHIMA, Japan)
  Miyauchi (Kagoshima University, KAGOSHIMA, Japan)
  Oiso (Kagoshima University, KAGOSHIMA, Japan)
  Shimodozono (Kagoshima University, KAGOSHIMA, Japan)
  Yamada (Kagoshima University, KAGOSHIMA, Japan)
  
• Abstract:

  [Aims] Teicoplanin (TEIC) is one of the glycopeptide antibiotics and has been very useful to cure Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) infection in Japan. Since TEIC has a long-term half life, many reports suggested that 400mg of TEIC should be administered twice in the first day as a loading dose to quickly increase its level up to..

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