3542 Torsade de pointes/QT prolongation risks with antibiotics: A contemporary analysis of the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System

Abstract

OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Macrolides, linezolid, imipenem-cilastatin, fluoroquinolones, penicillin combinations, and ceftriaxone are known to be associated with Torsade de pointes/QT prolongation (TdP/QTP). Other antibiotics may also lead to TdP/QTP, but no study has systemically compared TdP/QTP risks of different antibiotics using recent data. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the association between TdP/QTP and antibiotics in recent years using the FDA Adverse Event Report System (FAERS). METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: FAERS reports from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2017 were analyzed. The Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) was used to identify TdP/QTP cases. We calculated the Reporting Odds Ratios (RORs) and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) for the association between antibiotics and TdP/QTP. An association was considered to be statistically significant when the lower limit of the 95%CI was greater than 1. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: A total of 2,042,801 reports (including 5,221 TdP/QTP reports) were considered, after inclusion criteria were applied. Macrolides had the greatest proportion of TdP/QTP reports, representing 2.9% of all macrolide reports. TdP/QTP RORs (95%CI) for the antibiotics were (in descending order): macrolides 11.73 (9.74-14.12), linezolid 9.39 (6.45-13.68), amikacin 8.94 (4.22-18.92), imipenem-cilastatin 5.01 (2.38-10.56), fluoroquinolones 4.67 (3.96-5.52), penicillin combinations 3.52 (2.56-4.86), cephalosporins 1.90 (1.14-3.16), metronidazole 1.49 (0.74-2.99), vancomycin 1.26 (0.70-2.28), clindamycin 0.83 (0.27-2.58), trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole 0.82 (0.31-2.18), and amoxicillin 0.57 (0.18-1.78). DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: This study confirms prior evidence for TdP-QTP risks with macrolides, linezolid, imipenem-cilastatin, fluoroquinolones, penicillin combinations, and cephalosporins. This study provides new evidence for TdP-QTP risks with amikacin. Macrolides had the highest TdP/QTP ROR among the antibiotics evaluated in this study.