ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Antimicrobials in Critically Ill Obese Patients.
Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Care of patients with obesity in the Emergency Department: a joint position statement from the Brazilian Association of Emergency Medicine (ABRAMEDE) and the Brazilian Association for the Study of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome (ABESO).Archives of endocrinology and metabolism · 2025Guideline
- Mechanisms of Obesity-Related Kidney Disease: From Adipose Depot Biology to the Chymase-Aldosterone and Ghrelin-Leptin Axes.Biomolecules · 2026Review
- Multidrug-Resistant Infections and Metabolic Syndrome: An Overlooked Bidirectional Relationship.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Navigating pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics challenges of β-lactam antibiotics in patients with low body weight: efficacy, toxicity, and dosage optimization.Therapeutic advances in drug safety · 2025Article
- Vancomycin levels for Bayesian dose-optimization in critical care: a prospective cohort study.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
Obesity is a significant global public health concern that is associated with an elevated risk of comorbidities as well as severe postoperative and nosocomial infections. The treatment of infections in critically ill obese patients can be challenging because obesity affects the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of antibiotics, leading to an increased risk of antibiotic therapy failure and toxicity due to inappropriate dosages. Precision dosing of antibiotics using therapeutic drug monitoring may help to improve the management of this patient population. This narrative review outlines the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes that result from obesity and provides a comprehensive critical review of the current available data on dosage adjustment of antibiotics in critically ill obese patients.
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