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Azithromycin‐Induced Torsade De Pointes
Author(s) -
HUANG BIENHSIEN,
WU CHIHUA,
HSIA CHIHPING,
YIN CHEN CHUNG
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00912.x
Subject(s) - azithromycin , medicine , qt interval , erythromycin , torsades de pointes , long qt syndrome , cardiology , anesthesia , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Although erythromycin frequently induces long QT interval and torsade de pointes, the newer drug, azithromycin, has rarely been reported to be associated with torsade de pointes. We report here the occurrence of a significant typical QT prolongation within a few hours after taking azithromycin which lead to torsade de pointes.