Cardiac arrhythmia with oral oxamniquine use in the schistosomiasis mansoni treatment

Guitti, J.C.; Gordan, L.N.; Baldy, J.L.

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo 35(6): 585-587

1993


ISSN/ISBN: 0036-4665
PMID: 7997766
Document Number: 405947
The authors report a case of a patient with schistosomiasis (S. mansoni) treated with one single dose (15 mg/kg/BWT) of oral oxamniquine who presented Mobitz type I second-degree AV block and sinus arrest with ventricular escape as a side-effect. They conclude that in spite of the safety and good activity of oxamniquine it may be a determinant of cardiotoxicity.

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