TENDINITIS BY FLUOROQUINOLONES - DESCRIPT ION OF 2 PATIENTS

Two patients with tendinitis by ciprofloxacin are described. In both p atients isolated involvement of the Aquilles tendon was produced. The symptoms initiated at 2 to 4 weeks of the begining of treatment. The t wo patients had undergone chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation due to chronic myeloid leukemia and acute promyelocytic leukemia, res pectively with no data on recurrence of leukemia being obtained at the time of the tendinitis. Suppression of ciprofloxacin achieved disappe arance of the symptomatology.