A case of QT-interval prolongation precipitated by azithromycin

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 1185, 2003, Pages

  Matsunaga, Naohisa ^a   Oki, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Prigollini, Alejandro ^a  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; COUGHING; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE TEST; FEVER; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; QT PROLONGATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; T WAVE; TELEMETRY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; MIDDLE AGED;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARRHYTHMIA; AZITHROMYCIN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0642276495     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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