Eficacia y seguridad del uso de la gatifloxacina en el tratamiento de la sinusitis aguda bacteriana

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Author	Idi, José Schimelmitz Soriano, Daniel El Bross Gómez, José R. Arrieta Urrutia, René Guzmán Basave, Santiago Jorba Escobar, Gerardo Arturo Bravo
Copyright Year	2000
Abstract	The objective of this study was to determine the efficacy and safeness of the use of gatifloxacin at 400mg once a day in the treatment of acute bacterial sinusitis. Design of the study: Open and no comparative, prospective, longitudinal. We included the first 15 patients that came to the department of Otorhinolaryngology of the Hospital General Dr. Manuel Gea Gonzalez that were diagnosed with acute bacterial sinusitis. All the patients had computed tomography before and after treatment. Also we took pretreatment culture from the middle meatus. The pretreatment cultures showed 4 patients without growth and other 4 with normal flora growing and the rest of the patients had Moraxella catharralis, Haemophilus influenzae and Corynebacterium spp between others. The computed tomography had a 100% correlation with the clinical course and the return to the normality after the
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