• DOI:10.1345/aph.1R086
Corpus ID: 20744216

Successful Treatment of Extensively Drug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Peritoneal Dialysis Peritonitis with Intraperitoneal Polymyxin B and Ampicillin-Sulbactam

@article{Fitzpatrick2012SuccessfulTO,
  title={Successful Treatment of Extensively Drug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Peritoneal Dialysis Peritonitis with Intraperitoneal Polymyxin B and Ampicillin-Sulbactam},
  author={M. Fitzpatrick and John S. Esterly and M. Postelnick and S. Sutton},
  journal={Annals of Pharmacotherapy},
  year={2012},
  volume={46},
  pages={e17 - e17}
}

M. Fitzpatrick, John S. Esterly, +1 author S. Sutton

Published 2012

Medicine

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

OBJECTIVE: To describe a case of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Acinetobacter baumannii peritoneal dialysis (PD)–associated peritonitis successfully treated with combination antibiotics, including intraperitoneal polymyxin B, with retention of the catheter. CASE SUMMARY: A 54-year-old woman with end-stage renal disease receiving chronic PD and recent antibiotic and hospital exposure presented with abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. She was found to have XDR A. baumannii PD peritonitis… CONTINUE READING

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