False prolongation of International Normalized Ratio associated with daptomycin.
CONCLUSION: Daptomycin therapy appeared to cause a false and substantial INR elevation in a patient who had been receiving warfarin. Results of TEG suggested that the INR elevation was an artifact of a drug-laboratory interaction and did not represent an anticoagulated state. The patient's INR normalized after linezolid was substituted for daptomycin.
PMID: 29472508 [PubMed - in process]
Source: American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy : AJHP - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Smith SE, Rumbaugh KA Tags: Am J Health Syst Pharm Source Type: research
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