These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Open-label efficacy and safety trial of 42 days of 566C80 for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in AIDS patients.
    Author: Dohn MN, Frame PT, Baughman RP, Lafon SW, Smulian AG, Caldwell P, Rogers MD.
    Journal: J Protozool; 1991; 38(6):220S-221S. PubMed ID: 1818178.
    Abstract:
    Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia continues to be a cause of morbidity and mortality in AIDS patients. Current therapies have a high rate of toxicity and failure. Compound 566C80 is a 1-4,hydroxynaphthoquinone with potent antiprotozoal activity which shows good efficacy and safety in 21-day treatment trials of P. carinii pneumonia (PCP) in AIDS patients. Because there is a generally high recurrence rate after treatment of PCP and there may be a possible advantage in decreasing the P. carinii burden in the lung with extended anti-Pneumocystis therapy, we performed an open label-trial of the safety and efficacy of 42-day therapy with 566C80 for PCP in AIDS patients. Ten patients were enrolled and one was lost to follow-up. Eight of the remaining nine patients successfully completed 42 days of therapy with minimal toxicity. This trial suggests that 566C80 for 42 days can be an effective, safe, and well-tolerated oral therapy for PCP in AIDS patients.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]