A rationale for combination ampicillin and daptomycin in renal transplant patients with enterococcal infective endocarditis

Treatment of enterococcal endocarditis in patients with history of renal transplantation is complicated. Treatment failure and/or drug toxicities are not uncommon. Treatment with ampicillin and daptomycin in a renal transplant patient has been rarely reported. Here we report a patient who was succes...

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Autores principales: Castro-Lainez, Miriams Teresita, Sierra-Hoffman, Miguel, Valladares, Victoria, Tillman, Tywaun, Iznaloa-Esquivel, Oscar A., Howell, Alan, Fader, Robert, Winn, Richard, Jinadatha, Chetan
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Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6202660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30370224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.e00460
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author Castro-Lainez, Miriams Teresita
Sierra-Hoffman, Miguel
Valladares, Victoria
Tillman, Tywaun
Iznaloa-Esquivel, Oscar A.
Howell, Alan
Fader, Robert
Winn, Richard
Jinadatha, Chetan
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description Treatment of enterococcal endocarditis in patients with history of renal transplantation is complicated. Treatment failure and/or drug toxicities are not uncommon. Treatment with ampicillin and daptomycin in a renal transplant patient has been rarely reported. Here we report a patient who was successfully treated with this novel combination.
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spelling pubmed-62026602018-10-26 A rationale for combination ampicillin and daptomycin in renal transplant patients with enterococcal infective endocarditis Castro-Lainez, Miriams Teresita Sierra-Hoffman, Miguel Valladares, Victoria Tillman, Tywaun Iznaloa-Esquivel, Oscar A. Howell, Alan Fader, Robert Winn, Richard Jinadatha, Chetan IDCases Article Treatment of enterococcal endocarditis in patients with history of renal transplantation is complicated. Treatment failure and/or drug toxicities are not uncommon. Treatment with ampicillin and daptomycin in a renal transplant patient has been rarely reported. Here we report a patient who was successfully treated with this novel combination. Elsevier 2018-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6202660/ /pubmed/30370224 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.e00460 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Castro-Lainez, Miriams Teresita
Sierra-Hoffman, Miguel
Valladares, Victoria
Tillman, Tywaun
Iznaloa-Esquivel, Oscar A.
Howell, Alan
Fader, Robert
Winn, Richard
Jinadatha, Chetan
A rationale for combination ampicillin and daptomycin in renal transplant patients with enterococcal infective endocarditis
title A rationale for combination ampicillin and daptomycin in renal transplant patients with enterococcal infective endocarditis
title_full A rationale for combination ampicillin and daptomycin in renal transplant patients with enterococcal infective endocarditis
title_fullStr A rationale for combination ampicillin and daptomycin in renal transplant patients with enterococcal infective endocarditis
title_full_unstemmed A rationale for combination ampicillin and daptomycin in renal transplant patients with enterococcal infective endocarditis
title_short A rationale for combination ampicillin and daptomycin in renal transplant patients with enterococcal infective endocarditis
title_sort rationale for combination ampicillin and daptomycin in renal transplant patients with enterococcal infective endocarditis
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6202660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30370224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.e00460
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