Roxithromycin-Associated Acute Thrombocytopenia

[b]BACKGROUND[/b] Recently, some case reports have been published on the macrolide antimicrobials azithromycin and clarithromycin as the cause of thrombocytopenia. The publicly accessible databases of the European Medicine Agency and the WHO drug monitoring program contain dozens of reports of roxithromycin-associated thrombocytopenia. [b]CASE REPORT[/b] We described the case of a 78-year-old woman presenting to our unit with petechial lesions...