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Individualizing amikacin regimens: accurate method to achieve therapeutic concentrations.
Therapeutic drug monitoring - 1 Nov 1991
Zaske D E, Cipolle R J, Rotschafer J C, Kohls P R, Strate R G
Abstract excerpt
Amikacin's pharmacokinetics and dosage requirements were studied in 98 patients receiving treatment for gram-negative infections. A wide interpatient variation in the kinetic parameters of the drug occurred in all patients and in patients who had normal serum creatinine levels or normal creatinine clearance. The half-life ranged from 0.7 to 14.4 h in 74 patients who had normal serum creatinine levels and from 0.7...
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