• Demetrious J

• Carotid Artery, Internal, Dissection / etiology
• Fluoroquinolones / adverse effects
• Manipulation, Spinal
• Open Access Document
• Vertebral Artery Dissection / etiology

In 2018 Demetrious presented a rationale for the causal relationship of fluoroquinolone antibiotic induced connective tissue degradation and cervical artery dissection. In 2019, Del Zotto and Pezzini published an independent medical case-control study that has initially affirmed the Demetrious hypothesis.. While past studies have associated recent infection and CAD, the presence of FQ antibiotics was neither assessed or considered as a risk factor or trigger.. Fluoroquinolone antibiotics are causative in the pathogenesis of cervical artery dissection.

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