[Use of sparfloxacin (Sparflo) in treating complicated urologic infections].

The authors review the effectiveness of a novel fluoroquinolone drug sparfloxacine (Sparflo, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories) in the treatment of patients with complicated forms of pyelonephritis and prostatitis. Both gramnegative and grampositive agents causing complicated urologic infections were highly sensitive to sparfloxacine: Enterobacter spp.--40.8%, Pseudomonas aeruginosa--38.5%, Proteus spp.--42.6%, E. coli--91.4%, Staphylococcus spp.--80.0%, Enterococcus faecalis--21.4%. Sparfloxacine was used in the treatment of 43 patients with complicated pyelonephritis and prostatitis. The complicating factors were the following: urolithiasis, renal anomalies, hydronephrotic transformation, nephroptosis, benign prostatic hyperplasia. Clinical response reached 83.7%; microbiological--78.7%. Thus, sparfloxacin has a wide spectrum of antibacterial activity and can be effectively used in patients with complicated infections of the urinary tract.