Life‐Threatening Hypoglycemia With Moxifloxacin in a Dialysis Patient

Effects of Moxifloxacin on Serum Glucose Concentrations in Rats

“…1) However, it has been reported to cause abnormalities in blood glucose concentrations such as hypoglycemia 2) and hyperglycemia. 3) Abnormalities in serum glucose concentrations are welldocumented adverse effects of fluoroquinolones.…”

Recurrent episodes of hypoglycemia induced by moxifloxacin

“…[234] In the literature there are only two case reports of moxifloxacin induced hypoglycemia. [56] These were published in last 1 year and the patients were non-diabetic.…”

Moxifloxacin-induced Hypoglycemia in a Non-diabetic Patient

“…Till now, adverse events of dysglycemia were associated with moxifloxacin but causal relationship had not been established in most of these events [1,8]. Up to the best of our knowledge, this is just the second case that shows a causal relationship between moxifloxacin and hypoglycemia [4]. Contrary to the previous case report, there are no significant co-morbid conditions like renal dysfunction, anorexia and other risk factors like diabetes mellitus that can affect glucose metabolism and can induce or aggravate this disease.…”

“…Recently, gatifloxacin was given a black box warning and label change by US -FDA due to its dysglycemic action [2]. Levofloxacin is also associated with hypoglycemic reactions [1,3] but there is scarcity of evidence on linkage between moxifloaxacin and hypoglycemia [1,4]. We are reporting a case of hypoglycemia due to moxifloxacin.…”