Twenty-eight (82) patients required a change in therapy (because of side effects, lack of effectiveness, orDigest author(s): Emer Kelly, e-Learning Director / 10 September, 2021of MAC pulmonary disease and should be maintained for at least 12 months after negative sputum culture conversion. Only 5 patients received no IV agents. The most commonly used regimen was IV amikacin, a second IV agent, and a macrolide (n 15, 44). 1559 - 1569reported medications were IV amikacin (n 22, 65) and azithromycin (n 24, 71). MAC is the atypical Mycobacterium most commonly associated with human disease.Chest Published online 19 April, 2021 | (21)00703-0/fulltextAmikacin liposome inhalation suspension for treatment-refractory lung disease caused by Mycobacterium avium complex (CONVERT): a prospective, open-label, randomized study Am J Respir Crit Care Med , 198 ( 12 ) ( 2018 ) , pp. Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) consists of two species: M avium and M intracellulare because these species are difficult to differentiate, they are also collectively referred to as Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI).

16.1% of patients (36/224) in the ALIS+GBT and no patients (0/112) in the GBT alone arm achieved culture conversion that was both sustained at 12 months after conversion treatment and durable 3 months after all MAC treatment. At baseline the median duration of NTM lung disease was 4 years in the converter group. The 75 patients who achieved culture conversion by month 6 (ALIS+GBT 65 patients (29%) and 10 patients (8.9%) in the GBT alone) were followed. Monitoring for adverse events included audiology testing.This study predated the COVID era with enrolment 2015-2017, at centres in North America, Europe, Australasia and Asia with 336 patients randomised (224 to receive ALIS+GBT and 112 GBT alone). It is mentioned that polyclonal infection or reinfection from the same source as original infection could cross the lines of these definitions.

The study drug was generally well tolerated but tinnitus and dizziness occurred in less than 10%. Within the small numbers in this group, there was 1 reinfection, 3 relapses and some missing data. In GBT alone, 30% showed sputum negative (3/10). In the ALIS+GBT group 80% were negative culture at end of treatment but 7.7% were positive, defined as relapse and 4.6% defined as reinfection.

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