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Mechanisms, Risk Factors, and Management of Acquired Long QT Syndrome: A Comprehensive Review
The Scientific World Journal, 2012 Long QT syndrome is characterized by prolongation of the corrected QT (QTc) interval on the surface electrocardiogram and is associated with precipitation of torsade de pointes (TdP), a polymorphic ventricular tachycardia that may cause sudden death ...
Eleftherios M. Kallergis +4 more
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Long QT syndrome - causes and risk factors [PDF]
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2018 Sudden cardiac death is a major public health challenge, which can be caused by genetic or acquired structural or electrophysiological abnormalities. These abnormalities include channelopathies such as long QT, short QT and Brugada syndromes.
Erwin Ciechański +3 more
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Selective acquired long QT syndrome (saLQTS) upon risperidone treatment [PDF]
BMC Psychiatry, 2012 Background Numerous structurally unrelated drugs, including antipsychotics, can prolong QT interval and trigger the acquired long QT syndrome (aLQTS). All of them are thought to act at the level of KCNH2, a subunit of the potassium channel.
Lazarczyk Maciej +3 more
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Acquired Long QT Syndrome and Torsades de Pointes after Mitral Valve Replacement Surgery [PDF]
Journal of Cardiac Arrhythmias, 2021 Acquired long QT syndrome (aLQTS) can occur in up to one third of patients undergoing cardiac surgery and is often undisclosed. We present a case of a 55-year-old male patient admitted to our center for mitral valve replacement surgery, and, during the ...
Carlos Rodríguez-Artuza +4 more
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Acquired Long QT Syndrome and Torsade de Pointes Associated with HIV Infection
Case Reports in Medicine, 2010 Here, we report the case of an HIV infected patient that was treated for pneumonia with a macrolid antibiotic. The patient experienced a prolongation of the already pathologic QTc interval resulting in repeated torsades de pointes necessitating CPR and ...
Alexander Shimabukuro-Vornhagen +7 more
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Anthracyclines and Acquired Long QT Syndrome. A Case Report [PDF]
Revista Finlay, 2014 Acquired long QT syndrome results from secondary causes and can be caused by more than 100 non-antiarrhythmic drugs. Cardiac arrest due to Torsades de pointes induced by drugs causing prolonged QT syndrome is a rare but potentially fatal event, even in ...
Carlos Rodríguez Armada +1 more
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Long QT interval in resting electrocardiogram – and what next? Sports cardiologist’s pointofview. Part 1. From electrophysiology to diagnostics [PDF]
Pediatria i Medycyna Rodzinna, 2014 Electrocardiography is the most common and available cardiovascular diagnostic procedure and an important tool in everyday clinical practice of a family physician. Electrocardiogram interpretation is therefore an invaluable clinical skill.
Zbigniew Krenc
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Mitoxantrone and acquired Long-QT Syndrome. Case presentation. [PDF]
Medisur, 2009 The acquired Long-QT Syndrome can be caused by more than 100 non anti-arrhythmic drugs. These drugs block potassium channels; particularly the IKr which extends the ventricular repolarization beyond 450 ms.
Brandy Viera Valdés +1 more
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Acquired Long QT Syndrome after Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Rare but Potentially Fatal Entity. [PDF]
Tex Heart Inst J, 2020 Acquired long QT syndrome is typically caused by medications, electrolyte disturbances, bradycardia, or catastrophic central nervous system events. We report a case of myocardial infarction-related acquired long QT syndrome in a 58-year-old woman that ...
Gordon SS +5 more
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Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal, 2002 The Long QT syndrome (LQTS) can be inherited or acquired and is of particular interest and concern at present. Patients with LQTS are predisposed to the ventricular tachyarrhythmia torsade de pointes (TdP) which causes syncope and sudden death. Inherited
G. Michael Vincent
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