Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

Publication Title

Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapy

First Page

63

Last Page

66

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.5863/1551-6776-18.1.63

Abstract

A 14-year-old male with bilateral above-the-knee amputations presented to our hospital for treatment of a skin and soft-tissue infection. We report the experience of vancomycin and gentamicin therapy in this patient. Because these medications require weight-based dosages and pharmacokinetic monitoring of serum levels, it was necessary to obtain peak and trough levels of the two drugs in order to determine the pharmacokinetic differences in this patient compared to those in an adolescent male without amputations. To our knowledge, this is the first report describing pharmacokinetic differences in an adolescent amputee.

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