Variable linezolid exposure and response and the role of therapeutic drug monitoring: Case series

Abstract

Abstract Two patients with normal renal function, yet each showed unexpected, supra‐ and subtherapeutic linezolid plasma concentrations resulting in toxicity and ineffective therapy, respectively. TDM helps to early identify and correct such excursions.

Keywords

• efficacy
• linezolid
• monitoring
• safety
• thrombocytopenia