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Pharmacokinetic aspects of levofloxacin 500 mg once daily during sequential intravenous/oral therapy in patients with lower respiratory tract infections.
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2003 January
Levofloxacin is considered an effective antibiotic in the treatment of community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs). A study was carried out on 17 in-patients to assess the pharmacokinetics of a 500 mg once-daily switch intravenous (i.v.)/oral regimen of levofloxacin in the treatment of LRTI patients. Blood samples were collected under steady-state conditions at appropriate intervals. Levofloxacin plasma concentrations were analysed by means of HPLC and pharmacokinetic parameters were estimated using the WinNonlin pharmacokinetic software package. A lower clearance of levofloxacin (<2 mL/min/kg), conditioning both a longer elimination half-life (approximately 9 h) and a larger AUC(0-tau) (approximately 80 mg/L x h), was observed for both routes in our patients than in healthy volunteers. These differences may be explained considering that levofloxacin is excreted mainly as unchanged drug by the renal route, and most of our patients (71%) were very elderly subjects whose renal function physiologically declines with age. The almost complete (> or =99%) absolute oral bioavailability suggests that a comparable exposure to the iv regimen may be achieved after oral administration. The overall clinical success rate was 94.1%.
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