Clarithromycin-Induced Long QT Syndrome: A Case Report

Long QT syndrome develops for a number of reasons. The number of non-antiarrhythmic drugs reported to induce QT interval prolongation with or without torsade de pointes continues to increase. Clarithromycin is a macrolide antibiotic being increasingly used for the treatment of atypical pneumonia. In...

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Autores principales: Cetin, Mecnun, Yıldırımer, Munevver, Özen, Serkan, Tanrıverdi, Sema, Coskun, Senol
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Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3318261/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22489247
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/634652
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author Cetin, Mecnun
Yıldırımer, Munevver
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Tanrıverdi, Sema
Coskun, Senol
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description Long QT syndrome develops for a number of reasons. The number of non-antiarrhythmic drugs reported to induce QT interval prolongation with or without torsade de pointes continues to increase. Clarithromycin is a macrolide antibiotic being increasingly used for the treatment of atypical pneumonia. In this paper, we describe a patient who developed long QT prolongation syndrome after receiving clarithromycin for the treatment of atypical pneumonia.
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spelling pubmed-33182612012-04-09 Clarithromycin-Induced Long QT Syndrome: A Case Report Cetin, Mecnun Yıldırımer, Munevver Özen, Serkan Tanrıverdi, Sema Coskun, Senol Case Rep Med Case Report Long QT syndrome develops for a number of reasons. The number of non-antiarrhythmic drugs reported to induce QT interval prolongation with or without torsade de pointes continues to increase. Clarithromycin is a macrolide antibiotic being increasingly used for the treatment of atypical pneumonia. In this paper, we describe a patient who developed long QT prolongation syndrome after receiving clarithromycin for the treatment of atypical pneumonia. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3318261/ /pubmed/22489247 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/634652 Text en Copyright © 2012 Mecnun Cetin et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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