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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLES |
The Effectiveness Of Sulbactam/ampicillin In Thetreatment Of Severe Soft-tissue, Joint And Bone Infections
Davut KESKİN*, Naci EZİRMİK*, Orhan KARSAN**, Bülent ALPARSLAN***
* Yrd.Doç.Dr.,Atatürk Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji AD.,
** Doç.Dr.,Atatürk Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji AD, ERZURUM
*** Prof.Dr.,Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji AD, AYDIN
Despite the different treatment methods, the treatment of severe soft-tissue, joint and bone infections is difficult for patients and orthopedists. The antibiotics that are applied for the treatment of infections must be suitable and effective because pathogen organisms are highly resistant. We treated 38 patients who had soft tissue, joint and bone infections through sulbactam/ampicillin and evaluated the results in the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of Atatürk University Medical School, between 1995-1998. Of these cases, 25 (65.8%) were males and 13 (34.2%) females. The mean age was 25.5 years, ranging from 4 to 58 years. Etiological factors were acute and subacute osteomyelitis in 8 (21.1%) cases, acute osteomyelitis and septic arthritis in 3 (7.8%) cases, septhic arthritis in 8 (21.1%) cases, chronic osteomyelitis in 7 (18.4%) cases, traffic accident and gunshot wound in 12 (31.6%) cases. 64.9% of pathogen organisms were Staphylococcus aureus. The mean antibiotic treatment time was 17.3 days by intravenous and 24.6 days by oral administration. The cases were followed up with an average period of 14 months (3 months - 3 years), and favourable result in 75% of the cases, adequate result in 19.4% of the cases, unfavourable result in 5.6% of the cases were obtained. As a conclusion, it was concluded that the sulbactam/ampicillin treatment is effective in severe soft-tissue, joint and bone infections.Keywords: Sulbactam/ampicillin, Infections of soft-tissue,
joint and boneTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Sci 1998, 18:150-155
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