Alatrofloxacin Injection

Brand name(s): Trovan Injection

Alatrofloxacin has been associated with serious liver injury leading to liver transplantation or death. Alatrofloxacin-associated liver injury has been reported with both short- and long-term drug exposure. Alatrofloxacin use exceeding 2 weeks in duration is associated with a significantly increased risk of serious liver injury. Liver injury has also been reported following alatrofloxacin re-exposure. Alatrofloxacin should be reserved for use in patients with serious, life- or limb-threatening infections who receive their initial therapy in an in-patient health care facility (i.e., hospital or long-term nursing care facility). Alatrofloxacin should not be used when safer, alternative antimicrobial therapy will be effective.If you experience any of the following symptoms, call your doctor immediately: increased fatigue, loss of appetite, yellowing of the skin and eyes, severe stomach pain with nausea and vomiting, or dark urine. Keep all appointments with your doctor and the laboratory. Your doctor will order certain lab tests to check your response to alatrofloxacin.

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