Open AccessCardiac Actions of Erythromycin
Author(s) -
MilouDaniel Drici,
Björn C. Knollmann,
Wen-Xiu Wang,
Raymond L. Woosley
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
jama
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688
H-Index - 680
eISSN - 1538-3598
pISSN - 0098-7484
DOI - 10.1001/jama.280.20.1774
Subject(s) - medicine , erythromycin , torsades de pointes , context (archaeology) , qt interval , medical prescription , cardiology , anesthesia , pharmacology , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , paleontology
Erythromycin is a widely used antibiotic that infrequently causes QT-prolongation and torsades de pointes cardiac arrhythmias. For antiarrhythmic drugs, women are at a higher risk for these cardiac arrhythmias, but few other classes of drugs have been studied.
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