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Case Report | Volume 11 Issue :3 (, 2021) | Pages 38 - 45
Ciprofloxacin induced acquired long QT syndrome
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DOI : 10.5083/ejcm
Published
Sept. 25, 2021
Abstract

Quinolone antibiotics have potentially serious proarrhythmic effects. The effects on intracardiac potassium channels result in QT interval prolongation, leading to torsades de pointes. Evidence suggests fluoroquinolones cause QT-mediated proarrhythmia, and weak evidence links ciprofloxacin with QT-mediated arrhythmias. Ciprofloxacin may be given to select patients because the agent is believed to be safer than other drugs in its class. We report a case of ciprofloxacin-induced Q-T prolongation in a 33 year-old woman within 48 hours of its administration.

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