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Three patients are presented who developed reversible sensorineural hearing losses during treatment with intravenous erythromycin lactobionate. A fourth patient treated with erythromycin gluceptate did not develop hearing loss. Ototoxicity with erythromycin lactobionate has been previously reported in only three patients, one of whom had medication orally. Withdrawal of the antibiotic resulted in prompt improvement in every case with return of hearing to pretreatment levels.
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