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Tobramycin und Colistin sind zwei Standardantibiotika bei der inhalativen Behandlung von Patienten mit zystischer Fibrose (CF), die chronisch mit Pseudomonas aeruginosa besiedelt sind. In dieser Arbeit wurde die Resistenzentwicklung von Pseudomonas aeruginosa gegen Tobramycin und Colistin bei 1844 Isolaten beobachtet. Die Pseudomonas-aeruginosa-Isolate wurden von 22 Patienten mit CF gewonnen, die eine alternierende Inhalationstherapie mit Tobramycin und Colistin erhalten hatten. Eine Tobramycinresistenz wurde bei 30,4% der Isolate und bei 72,7% der Patienten beobachtet. Im Gegensatz hierzu waren alle Isolate sensibel gegenüber Colistin, und es entwickelte auch kein Patient eine Colistin-Resistenz. In molekulargenetischen Analysen ausgewählter Pseudomonas-aeruginosa-Isolate hatte es den Anschein, dass die Patienten im Verlauf der Erkrankung jeweils nur mit einem Genotyp besiedelt waren. Zusammenfassend kann gesagt werden, dass eine Resistenzentwicklung gegen Tobramycin unter Inhalationstherapie stattfindet, während eine Resistenzentwicklung gegen Colistin die Ausnahme zu bleiben scheint.
Background: Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a rare pharmacogenetic disorder which is characterized by life-threatening metabolic crises during general anesthesia. Classical triggering substances are volatile anesthetics and succinylcholine (SCh). The molecular basis of MH is excessive release of Ca2+ in skeletal muscle principally by a mutated ryanodine receptor type 1 (RyR1). To identify factors explaining the variable phenotypic presentation and complex pathomechanism, we analyzed proven MH events in terms of clinical course, muscle contracture, genetic factors and pharmocological triggers.
Methods: In a multi-centre study including seven European MH units, patients with a history of a clinical MH episode confirmed by susceptible (MHS) or equivocal (MHE) in vitro contracture tests (IVCT) were investigated. A test result is considered to be MHE if the muscle specimens develop pathological contractures in response to only one of the two test substances, halothane or caffeine. Crises were evaluated using a clinical grading scale (CGS), results of IVCT and genetic screening. The effects of SCh and volatile anesthetics on Ca2+ release from sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) were studied in vitro.
Results: A total of 200 patients met the inclusion criteria. Two MH crises (1%) were triggered by SCh (1 MHS, 1 MHE), 18% by volatile anesthetics and 81% by a combination of both. Patients were 70% male and 50% were younger than 12 years old. Overall, CGS was in accord with IVCT results. Crises triggered by enflurane had a significantly higher CGS compared to halothane, isoflurane and sevoflurane. Of the 200 patients, 103 carried RyR1 variants, of which 14 were novel. CGS varied depending on the location of the mutation within the RyR1 gene. In contrast to volatile anesthetics, SCh did not evoke Ca2+ release from isolated rat SR vesicles.
Conclusions: An MH event could depend on patient-related risk factors such as male gender, young age and causative RyR1 mutations as well as on the use of drugs lowering the threshold of myoplasmic Ca2+ release. SCh might act as an accelerant by promoting unspecific Ca2+ influx via the sarcolemma and indirect RyR1 activation. Most MH crises develop in response to the combined administration of SCh and volatile anesthetics.
Here, we present the unique case of a 51‐year‐old German patient with multiple myeloma excreting Ascaris lumbricoides in his stool five weeks after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Stool analysis remained negative for the presence of eggs, and there was no eosinophilia in the peripheral blood at any time around stem cell transplantation. The patient was commenced on a three‐day treatment with mebendazole, which was well tolerated. No serious interactions with the concomitant post‐transplant medication or negative effects on the hematopoiesis were observed, and the myeloma still is in complete remission. To our knowledge, this is the first report on excretion of A lumbricoides in the context of allogeneic stem cell transplantation. The case is remarkable with view to the fact that the parasite has supposedly survived all courses of myeloma treatment including autologous and allogeneic conditioning. Parasitosis with A lumbricoides has a worldwide prevalence of about a billion and is extremely rare in northern Europe. Possibly the patient got infected during a trip to Egypt years before multiple myeloma was diagnosed.