Cardiomyopathy is a progressive disease of the myocardium, or heart muscle. In most cases, the heart muscle weakens and is unable to pump blood to the rest of the body as well as it should. There are many different types of cardiomyopathy caused by a range of factors, from coronary heart disease to certain drugs.
Specifically, linezolid is used to treat the following infections: 1  Certain pneumonia infections. 2  Certain skin and soft tissue infections. 3  Infections caused by the bacteria Enterococcus faecium when the bacteria are resistant to the antibiotic vancomycin (VancocinÂ®).
However, of the above antibiotics, only linezolid is available in oral and IV formulations. Older orally available agents, including clindamycin, co-trimoxazole, rifampicin and fusidic acid, have variable activity against, and in general also have unproven efficacy for the treatment of serious MRSA infections. New oral agents with proven efficacy in deep seated MRSA infection would be a welcome addition.