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Acyclovir-induced sinus bradycardia: a case report and literature review

2025· article· en· W4408663480 on OpenAlexaff
Gregory Mikerov, Ilyse Darwish

Bibliographic record

Venueencephalitis · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHerpesvirus Infections and Treatments
Canadian institutionsSt Mary's Hospital CentreMcGill University Health Centre
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBradycardiaSinus bradycardiaMedicineCardiologyInternal medicineHeart rate

Abstract

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In this report, we describe the case of a 51-year-old female who presented to our emergency department with varicella zoster infection. Her relevant medical history included rheumatoid arthritis which was treated with risankizumab. Intravenous acyclovir therapy was initiated due to concern for disseminated disease as she was experiencing T4 dermatomal involvement and new-onset scalp pain. On day 3 of antiviral therapy, the patient developed a sinus bradycardia of 35 beats/min. This persisted until 3 days after the discontinuation of acyclovir. This is the third reported case of sinus bradycardia potentially linked to acyclovir administration. Thus, clinicians should consider intravenous acyclovir as a possible cause of de novo sinus bradycardia.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Case report · Consensus signal: Case report
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.295
Threshold uncertainty score0.431

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.319
Teacher spread0.308 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designCase report
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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