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How do you counsel patients and doctors on antibiotic avoidance in myasthenia gravis?

In light of the publication from Uysal et al., PMID 40166923
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Do you advise that fluoroquinolones are a strict contraindication in patients with myasthenia gravis?

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Neurology · University of Minnesota
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I generally recommend avoiding aminoglycosides and most macrolides in MG. The rationale is that there are alternative effective antibiotics for most of the infections covered by the above categories. With fluoroquinolones, however, it's not that simple, because there are some infections that are uni...

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Neurology · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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The Uysal et al., PMID 40166923 paper shows a 1.5-2.5% risk of MG exacerbation with quinolones and/or azithromycin. Even amoxicillin had a 1.3% rate of exacerbations. A good third had more severe relapses requiring hospitalization. My reading of this is that the risks are small but real, that almost...

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