Gentamicin ototoxicity: a 23-year selected case series of 103 patients

The Medical Journal of Australia
Rebekah M AhmedG Michael Halmagyi

Abstract

To review patients with severe bilateral vestibular loss associated with gentamicin treatment in hospital. A retrospective case series of presentations to a balance disorders clinic between 1988 and 2010. Relationship between vestibulotoxicity and gentamicin dose or dosing profile; indications for prescribing gentamicin. 103 patients (age, 18-84 years; mean, 64 years) presented with imbalance, oscillopsia or both, but none had vertigo. Only three noted some hearing impairment after having gentamicin, but audiometric thresholds for all patients were consistent with their age. In all patients, the following tests gave positive results: a bilateral clinical head-impulse test, a vertical head-shaking test for vertical oscillopsia, and a foam Romberg test. In 21 patients, imbalance occurred during gentamicin treatment (ignored or dismissed by prescribers in 20) and in 66 after treatment; the remaining 16 could not recall when symptoms were first noticed, except that it was after gentamicin treatment in hospital. Total gentamicin dose range was 2-318 mg/kg (mean, 52 mg/kg), daily dose range was 1.5-5.6 mg/kg (mean, 3.5mg/kg), and duration was 1-80 days (mean, 17 days). Six patients had only a single dose; 26 had five or fewer doses. ...Continue Reading

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