ArticleJGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology2021
Systemic quinolones and risk of acute liver failure I: Analysis of data from the US FDA adverse event reporting system.
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- Fluoroquinolones for the Prophylaxis of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis: Are They Losing Ground?Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Safety of fluoroquinolones.Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2024Review
- Signal mining of adverse events of proteasome inhibitors in multiple myeloma based on FAERS.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Which fluoroquinolone is safer when combined with bedaquiline for tuberculosis treatment: evidence from FDA Adverse Event Reporting System database from 2013 to 2024.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Overview of Side-Effects of Antibacterial Fluoroquinolones: New Drugs versus Old Drugs, a Step Forward in the Safety Profile?Pharmaceutics · 2023Review
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimQuinolones are a potent and globally popular group of antibiotics that are used to treat a wide range of infections. Some case reports have raised concern about their possible association with acute hepatic failure (AHF). Data from the US FDA Adverse Event Reporting System were evaluated for signals of AHF in association with systemically administered quinolone antibiotics.
methodsAHF reports between 1969 and 2019q2, with a focus on 2010-2019q2, were analyzed. Specifically, AHF reports linked to non-quinolone antibiotics of known hepatotoxicity were compared to reports with non-quinolone, non-hepatotoxic (reference) antibiotics; and AHF reports with quinolones were also compared to reports with the same group of reference antibiotics. Two disproportionality signal detection techniques (proportional reporting ratio, PRR, and empirical Bayes geometric mean, EBGM) were used to assess the AHF signal for both analyses.
resultsOnly ciprofloxacin showed a marginal and significant AHF signal (PRR: 1.85 [1.21, 2.81]; EBGM: 1.54 [1.06, 1.81]); moxifloxacin, levofloxacin, and ofloxacin showed weak and nonsignificant signals.
conclusionFurther pharmacovigilance studies are required to confirm the association between ciprofloxacin and AHF seen in the present analysis.
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