- 著者
- Taku Ogawa Masatoshi Sato Shinsuke Yonekawa Chiyo Nakagawa Kenji Uno Kei Kasahara Koichi Maeda Mitsuru Konishi Keiichi Mikasa
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人 日本内科学会
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.52, no.10, pp.1131-1135, 2013 (Released:2013-05-15)
- 参考文献数
- 21
- 被引用文献数
- 5 6
Aminoglycosides are useful antimicrobial agents for treating infective endocarditis; however, they occasionally cause troublesome side effects, such as nephrotoxicity and ototoxicity. We herein report a case of infective endocarditis caused by Enterococcus faecalis that was treated successfully with continuous infusion of ampicillin without adjunctive aminoglycosides. The serum ampicillin concentrations were higher than the minimal inhibitory concentration for the target strain. Although the use of ampicillin monotherapy is currently avoided because double β-lactam therapy is reportedly more effective, continuous penicillin administration remains an effective therapeutic choice for treating infective endocarditis.
1 0 0 0 OA Multiple Cardiovascular Diseases or Risk Factors Increase the Severity of Coronavirus Disease 2019
- 著者
- Tomoyuki Yamada Taku Ogawa Kenta Minami Yusuke Kusaka Masaaki Hoshiga Akira Ukimura Takahide Sano Takeshi Kitai Taishi Yonetsu Sho Torii Shun Kohsaka Shunsuke Kuroda Koichi Node Yuya Matsue Shingo Matsumoto
- 出版者
- The Japanese Circulation Society
- 雑誌
- Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.85, no.11, pp.2111-2115, 2021-10-25 (Released:2021-10-25)
- 参考文献数
- 20
- 被引用文献数
- 2
Background:This study aimed to determine whether disease severity varied according to whether coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients had multiple or single cardiovascular diseases and risk factors (CVDRFs).Methods and Results:COVID-19 patients with single (n=281) or multiple (n=412) CVDRFs were included retrospectively. Multivariable logistic regression showed no significant difference in the risk of in-hospital death between groups, but patients with multiple CVDRFs had a significantly higher risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome (odds ratio: 1.75, 95% confidence interval: 1.09–2.81).Conclusions:COVID-19 patients with multiple CVDRFs have a higher risk of complications than those with a single CDVRF.