amphotericin
- noun
- /ˌæmfəˈtɛrɪsɪn/
- Specialized
- The patient was immediately started on Amphotericin B, 1 mg per kg per day.
- amphotericin B
- liposomal amphotericin
- intravenous amphotericin
Examples
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The lipid packaging places the amphotericin at the fungal cell, thus reducing the toxicity and allowing for larger doses.
Academic text (2005) -
As discussed, P. boydii is typically resistant to amphotericin B, so this patient received inadequate pharmacologic therapy.
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Prednisone was discontinued, and the patient was started on amphotericin B.
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But unlike Aspergillus, P. boydii is typically resistant to amphotericin B.
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Use combination therapy to treat systemic infections; it may reduce the need for toxic doses of amphotericin B.
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Following debridement, an induction phase of treatment with high doses of IV amphotericin B is generally initiated to achieve high drug concentrations.
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The next day, intravenous amphotericin B at 1.5 mg/kg/day was started along with saline nasal irrigation.
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Management typically requires extensive surgical debridement followed by long-term antifungal therapy, primarily with intravenous amphotericin B.
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Amphotericin B exerts broad-spectrum coverage and remains the drug of choice for life-threatening invasive fungal infections.
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The doctor prescribed amphotericin B to treat the patient's severe fungal infection.
Synonyms
A medicine that kills or stops fungi that cause infections
A medicine that kills or stops the growth of fungus
Surface Forms
Etymology
Amphotericin comes from the Greek root ampho- meaning 'both' and the common medicine ending -icin. A helpful way to remember it is to think of an amphibian, an animal that lives in 'both' water and land: amphotericin is a drug that fights serious fungal infections and its name hints that it can act in more than one way against those infections.