Ventilator-associated pneumonia occurred less frequently in patients who received inhaled amikacin vs. placebo. Fewer infection-related ventilator-associated complications took place with amikacin.

SAN DIEGO -- Adding amikacin liposome inhalation suspension (ALIS; Arikayce) to a macrolide-based regimen appeared to reduce respiratory symptoms and improve culture conversion rates in patients ...

Arikayce (amikacin liposome) is a brand-name inhalation suspension that’s prescribed to treat a certain bacterial lung infection. As with other drugs, Arikayce can cause side effects ...

“The use of this inhalation therapy of amikacin and manuka honey shows great promise as an improved therapy for M. abscessus pulmonary infections, which could lead to an increase in successful ...

So side effects of the two drugs are expected to be the same. But Arikayce is the only form of amikacin that’s inhaled using a nebulizer. Arikayce isn’t available as generic amikacin.

Amikacin is one of the frontline antibiotics used for treating M. abscessus infections. They validated the assay results using an in vitro inhalation model. This model simulated the combination of ...

In a chronic M. abscessus lung infection mouse model, unlike inhaled amikacin, inhaled pravibismane exhibited a statistically significant reduction in bacteria in lung homogenates when compared to ...