Clinical Outcome with Standard Regimen plus Clofazimine or Moxifloxacin in Cavitary Mycobacterium avium Complex Pulmonary Disease
Yea Eun Park, Yong Pil Chong, Hyun Joo Lee, Tae Sun Shim, Kyung‐Wook Jo
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy · 2022-11
Abstract
In this retrospective analysis including 173 patients in a tertiary referral center in South Korea, compared with the standard therapeutic regimen, clofazimine or moxifloxacin plus standard treatment regimen potentially did not induce a higher 1-year culture conversion rate in patients with Mycobacterium avium complex pulmonary disease who present with cavitary lesions (fibrocavitary or cavitary nodular bronchiectatic type).
MeSH terms
- Clofazimine
- Moxifloxacin
- Regimen
- Medicine
- Culture conversion
- Mycobacterium avium complex
- Internal medicine
- Antibacterial agent
- Surgery
- Antibiotics
- Tuberculosis