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. 2023 Jul 15;16(7):1005. doi: 10.3390/ph16071005

Table 3.

Medical and surgical treatment before or co-administered with DBV. (*) Surgical procedures included: toilette of infected wound, bone debridement, drainage of abscesses. Acronym used—DBV: dalbavancin; MRSA: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; IV: intravenous; po: oral; INR: international normalized ratio.

Surgery before DBV
N. of patients included 159 (35.3%)
     Patients who underwent surgery before DBV* (n,%) 110 (69.2%)
     Patients who did not undergo surgery before DBV (n,%) 49 (30.8%)
Antibiotics pre-DBV
N. of patients included 239 (53.1%)
     None (n,%) 83 (34.7%)
     Unspecified molecule (n,%) 64 (26.8%)
     Anti-MRSA IV (n,%) 47 (19.7%)
     Anti-MRSA AND anti-Gram-negative po (n,%) 16 (6.7%)
     Anti-MRSA AND anti-Gram-negative IV (n,%) 14 (5.9%)
     Anti-MRSA po (n,%) 8 (3.4%)
     Anti-Gram-positive (n,%) 7 (2.9%)
Reason to switch to DBV
N. of patients included 96 (21.3%)
     Failure of the previous antimicrobial regimen (n,%) 45 (46.9%)
     Simplification (n,%) 19 (19.8%)
     Adverse reaction (n,%) 14 (14.6%)
     Other (n,%) 18 (18.8%)
Adverse reactions to DBV
N. of patients included 285 (63.3%)
     No adverse reactions (n,%) 255 (89.5%)
     Adverse reaction (n,%): 30 (10.5%)
       ➢ Unspecified (n,%) 13 (4.6%)
       ➢ Cutaneous (n,%) 7 (2.5%)
       ➢ Nausea (n,%) 6 (2.1%)
       ➢ Diarrhoea (n,%) 2 (0.7%)
       ➢ INR abnormalities (n,%) 1 (0.4%)
       ➢ Acute kidney injuries (n,%) 1 (0.4%)
Antibiotics co-administered
N. of patients included 238 (52.9%)
     None (n,%) 182 (76.5%)
     Unspecified molecule (n,%) 22 (9.2%)
     Anti-MRSA AND anti-Gram-negative IV (n,%) 10 (4.2%)
     Anti-MRSA AND anti-Gram-negative po (n,%) 13 (5.5%)
     Anti-MRSA po (n,%) 11 (4.6%)