[Experience using cefpirome in pneumonia].

Twenty patients with lower respiratory tract infection were treated with cefpirome: 16 patients with pneumonia and 4 patients with chronic bronchitis which developed at the background of other diseases such as chronic somatic diseases, lung cancer, exudative pleurisy and others. The drug was administered intravenously in a dose of 1 g twice a day for 7 to 10 days. The clinical efficacy was stated in 80 per cent of the cases. In 95 per cent of the cases the drug tolerance was good. The isolates from the patients were susceptible to cefpirome in 83 per cent of the cases.