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ReviewExpert opinion on drug safety2019

An evaluation of reports of ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, and moxifloxacin-association neuropsychiatric toxicities, long-term disability, and aortic aneurysms/dissections disseminated by the Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency.

Andrew C Bennett, Charles L Bennett, Bartlett J Witherspoon, Kevin B Knopf

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In one paragraph

Review in Expert opinion on drug safety, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
42citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. HLA-B*44 Alleles and HLA-DQA1*03:01 as Genetic Risk Factors for Drug-Induced Liver Injury due to Fluoroquinolones.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2026
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  10. Fluoroquinolone-Mediated Tendinopathy and Tendon Rupture.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  15. Safety of fluoroquinolones.Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2024
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  19. Thoracic Aorta: Anatomy and Pathology.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  20. Nitrofurantoin failure in males with an uncomplicated urinary tract infection: a primary care observational cohort study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Andrew C BennettDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences, The University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy , Columbia , SC , USA.
Charles L BennettDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences, The University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy , Columbia , SC , USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8645-5705
Bartlett J WitherspoonDepartment of Medicine, The WJB Dorn Veterans Administration Medical Center , Columbia , SC , USA.
Kevin B KnopfDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences, The University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy , Columbia , SC , USA.

Funding

Research for Adverse Drug-Events And Reports (RADAR)R01CA102713 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI WEST, DENNIS PAUL · 2003 to 2010
$3.2M
Southern Oncology Network on Adverse Reactions (SONAR) - Focus on Tyrosine KinaseR01CA165609 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA · PI BENNETT, CHARLES L. · 2012 to 2016
$2.2M
Research on Adverse Drug Events and Reports: Novel Multiple Myeloma DrugsR01CA125077 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI WEST, DENNIS PAUL · 2007 to 2009
$1.7M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA102713NCI NIH HHS R01 CA125077NCI NIH HHS R01 CA165609
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsAortic AneurysmAortic DissectionAortic RuptureCiprofloxacinDisability EvaluationEuropean UnionHumansLevofloxacinMoxifloxacinNeurotoxicity SyndromesUnited StatesUnited States Food and Drug AdministrationAnti-Bacterial AgentsCiprofloxacinLevofloxacinMoxifloxacinadverse eventsFluoroquinolonesneuropsychiatric toxicityREMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy)restricted distribution

Identifiers

PMID31500468
PMCPMC9830651

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