Stratov Ivan, Denholm Justin, Kent Stephen J
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic. 3010, Australia.
Sex Health. 2013 May;10(2):179-82. doi: 10.1071/SH12128.
Azithromycin is commonly used in sexual health and respiratory medicine, often when the diagnosis is presumptive. A recent article by Ray et al. reported that 1 out of 20?000 courses of low-dose azithromycin was associated with (sudden) cardiovascular death (including 1 out of 4000 courses in high-risk cardiovascular patients), ascribing these deaths to azithromycin itself. Here, we critique the actual study and examine conflicting data from randomised control trials, animal studies and observational data.
