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Concentrations of metronidazole and tinidazole in female reproductive organs after a single intravenous infusion and after repeated oral administration.

P Männistö, M Karhunen, J Mattila, O Koskela, A M Suikkari, P Heinonen, R Tuimala, H Haataja

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Article in Infection. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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    Guideline
  3. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2023
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  4. A Review of Evidence-Based Care of Symptomatic Trichomoniasis and Asymptomatic Trichomonas vaginalis Infections.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2015
    Review
  5. Article
  6. Trichomonas vaginalis genital infections: progress and challenges.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2011
    Article
  7. Tinidazole in the treatment of bacterial vaginosis.International journal of women's health · 2010
    Article
  8. Article
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

P Männistö
M Karhunen
J Mattila
O Koskela
A M Suikkari
P Heinonen
R Tuimala
H Haataja
Orion Corporation (Finland) · FISouth Karelia Central Hospital · FITampere University · FIUniversity of Helsinki · FI

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Concentrations of metronidazole and tinidazole in serum and gynecological organs were analyzed after a single 500 mg intravenous infusion and after three days of treatment with 400 mg t.i.d. of metronidazole or 500 mg b.i.d. of tinidazole. The studies were performed in 67 patients subjected to hysterectomy and/or oophorectomy because of myomatosis uteri, carcinoma uteri or endometriosis. At the time of organ removal (about 30 min after infusion), metronidazole and tinidazole levels in serum were 14.5 +/- 0.45 mg/l and 12.3 +/- 0.38 mg/l, respectively. Concentrations of both drugs in the uterus and Fallopian tube were about the same as the simultaneous serum levels and concentrations in the ovaries about 55% thereof. At steady-state, the concentrations of tinidazole in serum (23.5 +/- 1.0 mg/l) were remarkably higher than those of metronidazole (13.5 +/- 0.84 mg/l) about three hours after the last oral dose. Drug concentrations in organs of the female reproductive tract were 70 to 100% those of the simultaneous serum levels.

Indexed as

Administration, OralAdultAgedFemaleGenitalia, FemaleHumansInfusions, ParenteralKineticsMetronidazoleMiddle AgedNitroimidazolesTinidazoleTissue DistributionMetronidazoleNitroimidazolesTinidazole

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PMID6469365
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