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Pediatric
Adverse Event: Cardiac (n=6)
(cont.)
(cont.)
Case of cardiac arrhythmia
•15 year old male
experienced chest discomfort and AV disassociation
and a junctional rhythm (USA)
–arrhythmia
persisted despite a reduction of linezolid
dose and resolved over two days after linezolid was stopped
–History
of premature atrial contractions with junctional escape
beats and wandering atrial pacemaker