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. 2011 Oct;55(10):4537–4542. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00713-11

Table 2.

Biodistribution of vancomycin in liver, kidney, lung, and spleen tissue after intravenous administration of a dose (5-mg/kg) of standard, conventional, and PEGylated liposomal vancomycin formulationsa

Vancomycin formulation Liver
Kidney
Lung
Spleen
AUC0–24 (μg · h/ml) Cmax (μg/ml) MRT (h) AUC0–24 (μg · h/ml) Cmax (μg/ml) MRT (h) AUC0–24 (μg · h/ml) Cmax (μg/ml) MRT (h) AUC0–24 (μg · h/ml) Cmax (μg/ml) MRT (h)
SV 21.9 ± 5.3 1.1 ± 0.2 10.5 ± 1.6 58.6 ± 5.7 9.8 ± 1.2 9.9 ± 0.9 13.5 ± 2.1 3.0 ± 0.2 8.8 ± 1.9 99.4 ± 18.7 4.9 ± 1.0 13.8 ± 0.5
CLV 426.3 ± 44.3*** 21.0 ± 1.1*** 11.7 ± 0.9 51.7 ± 40.1 5.4 ± 0.7** 11.1 ± 0.8 40.7 ± 13.5* 5.5 ± 0.9** 5.7 ± 1.3 1,563.1 ± 69.6*** 68.8 ± 3.7*** 12.6 ± 0.4*
PLV 378.9 ± 36.4*** 18.0 ± 3.8*** 11.2 ± 1.3 44.6 ± 3.9* 4.5 ± 0.9** 10.7 ± 2.1 92.2 ± 10.1*** 6.3 ± 1.5* 11.1 ± 0.6 1,169.4 ± 86.3*** 53.0 ± 1.2*** 12.8 ± 0.5
a

SV, standard formulation; CLV, conventional formulation; PLV, PEGylated formulation.

Symbols *, **, and *** denote P values of <0.05, 0.01, and 0.001, respectively, versus parameters for the standard solution.