Acute renal failure due to ofloxacin.

W V Med J. 1995 Jan;91(1):16.

Espiritu J, Walton T.

West Virginia School of Medicine, Charleston.

Fluoroquinolone antibiotics have rarely been associated with renal failure (1). However, temafloxacin, a member of this drug class, was voluntarily withdrawn from the U.S. market in 1992 after reports of renal failure and other adverse reactions (2). In this article, we report one of the first published cases of renal failure resulting from the administration of ofloxacin (Floxin, Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation), one of the newest fluoroquinolone antibiotics.