Fallah Alireza, Deep Maitri, Smallwood David, Hughes Peter
Box Hill Hospital, Department of General Medicine.
Australas Med J. 2013 Mar 31;6(3):112-4. doi: 10.4066/AMJ.2013.1616. Print 2013.
We report an interaction between erythromycin and simvastatin resulting in life-threatening rhabdomyolysis in an elderly patient. Drugs that inhibit CYP3A4 enzyme can cause elevated serum levels of statins which amplifies the risk of statin-induced rhabdomyolysis. Physicians should be aware of potential drug interactions of statins, which are widely used in the community.
我们报告了一例老年患者中红霉素与辛伐他汀相互作用导致危及生命的横纹肌溶解症。抑制CYP3A4酶的药物可导致他汀类药物血清水平升高,从而增加他汀类药物诱发横纹肌溶解症的风险。医生应意识到他汀类药物在社区中广泛使用时潜在的药物相互作用。