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Volume 1, Issue 11, Page 4 (November 2006)


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Watch for Hyperglycemia With Fluoroquinolones

SHERRY BOSCHERT (San Francisco Bureau)

SAN FRANCISCO — The risk for hyperglycemia in hospitalized patients treated with gatifloxacin or levofloxacin increased 112-fold if the patients were diabetic and 10-fold if the dosage was too high for their kidneys to handle, John F. Mohr, Pharm.D., reported at the annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

PII: S1558-0164(06)70378-9

doi:10.1016/S1558-0164(06)70378-9


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