antimicrobial therapy

Treatment of intra-abdominal infections (IAI) is а significant problem in surgery. Taking into consideration the clinical practice in Russia, this paper presents an analysis of guidelines on antimicrobial therapy for IAI, developed by Surgical …

Pancreatitis.associatedinfections (PAI) are among of the most serious complications of acute pancreatitis. Only about 5–7% of all patients with diagnosis of acute pancreatitis develop infection, but in patients with severe necrotizing pancreatitis …

Febrile neutropenia is becoming significant problem in Russian medical institutions. Changes in spectrum of causative pathogens, increase of the number of neutropenic patients and emergence of antimicrobial resistance – all the above factors require …

In the present guidelines the tactics of the choice of antibiotics in community-acquired urinary tract infections in children are presented. The guidelines are based on the results of multicentre study of antimicrobial resistance of the most common …

Acute rhinosinusitis is one of the most common disorders in otolaryngology and is on 5th place among all diseases based on the amount of all prescribed antimicrobials. But a number of problems in the antimicrobial therapy of this pathology still …

Diarrhea, which is associated with the usage of antimicrobials, is one of the important problems in clinical practice. This article reviews the questions of etiology, pathogenesis and epidemiology of antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD). Clinical …

The combination of ceftazidime with an aminoglycoside is a commonly used standard for empiric therapy of febrile neutropenia. A lot of attention is paid to the development of effective monotherapy for the treatment of this condition. One of the most …

The widespread of multy-resistant Gram-positive pathogens, especially methicillin-resistant staphylococci made us to reconsider our attitude to such an «old» drug as fusidic acid and to draw attention to its usefulness in therapy of the …

The present literature review is devoted to the one of the actual problems in the intensive care units – to the nosocomial pneumonia that is developing during mechanical ventilation (ventilator-associated pneumonia – VAP) in patients with different …

Case histories of outpatients with acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis (AECB) were analyzed. Diagnoses were classified according to the ICD-10, antimicrobials – to the ATC classification. Altogether 783 case histories of patients aged from 16 to …