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Would you recommend avoiding intravesical (bladder) tobramycin administration in a patient with advanced chronic kidney disease?
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Nephrology · Valley Nephrology Associates
Guess fear is absorption, build up, and toxicity.
A single loading dose of an aminoglycoside is not to toxic level. Maintaining the level of risks ototoxicity, build up also nephrotoxicity.
Would depend on absorption and residual GFR.
Try a single loading dose, check levels after 12 or 24 hours to g...