Azithromycin induced significant QT prolongation within a few hours of administration, leading to torsade de pointes.
Azithromycin can induce significant QT prolongation and torsade de pointes within hours of administration, despite being rarely associated with this adverse event compared to erythromycin.
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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.
HUANG et al. (Sat,) reported a other. Azithromycin induced significant QT prolongation within a few hours of administration, leading to torsade de pointes.