Acquired long QT syndrome and Torsades de Poin
The Egyptian Heart Journal, 2016 Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors are group of drugs commonly used in Alzheimer disease and have beneficial effects on treatment. Although they have many known side effects, cardiovascular side effects are rarely seen.
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Prevalence and risk factors for acquired long QT syndrome in the emergency department: a retrospective observational study. [PDF]
World J Emerg Med, 2023 BACKGROUND Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a heterogeneous syndrome that may be congenital or, more frequently, acquired. The real-world prevalence of acquired LQTS (aLQTS) in the emergency department (ED) remains to be determined.
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Acquired Genotype-Positive Long QT Syndrome After Pediatric Heart Transplantation. [PDF]
Pediatr TransplantCongenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) is rare but significant, as it carries a risk for ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. Its diagnosis can be made clinically by serial ECGs, ambulatory ECG monitoring, and exercise stress testing; however ...
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Acquired long QT syndrome due to antiemetics, COVID-19 and Blastocystis hominis induced exacerbation of congenital chloride losing diarrhoea. [PDF]
BMJ Case Rep, 2022 Congenital chloride losing diarrhoea (CCLD) is a rare disease caused by mutations in an intestinal chloride/bicarbonate ion exchange channel. Few reports describe CCLD in adults and none has described the impact of a parasitic infection on CCLD.
Rajendram R, Alghamdi AA, Alanazi MA.
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Uncovering possible silent acquired long QT syndrome using exercise stress testing in long-term pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia survivors. [PDF]
Int J CancerAn example of chemotherapy‐induced cardiotoxicity in cancer survivors is acquired long QT syndrome (aLQTS), which may cause serious yet preventable life‐threatening consequences.
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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.
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Acquired Long QT Syndrome: A Review of the Literature [PDF]
Asploro Journal of Biomedical and Clinical Case Reports, 2020 The QT interval represents the duration of ventricular depolarization and repolarization. It is measured from the beginning of the QRS complex to the end of the T wave. Prolongation of the QT interval may be congenital or acquired.
Rajendram R
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Torsades de pointes during laparoscopic adrenalectomy of a pheochromocytoma: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2011 Introduction Torsades de pointes is a rare but potentially lethal arrhythmia. The amount of literature available on Torsades de pointes occurring in patients with pheochromocytoma is limited, and we found no literature describing this dysrhythmia in a ...
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Pueraria mirifica, an estrogenic tropical herb, unveiled the severity of Type 1 LQTS caused by KCNQ1‐T587M [PDF]
Journal of Arrhythmia, 2021 After taking an estrogen-containing supplement derived from a tropical plant Pueraria mirifica, a 24-year-old woman presented marked QT prolongation and repetitive torsade de pointes.
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Prevalence and predictors of acquired long QT syndrome in the ER department [PDF]
European Heart Journal, 2022 Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a rare heterogeneous syndrome that may be congenital or acquired, the latter being more common. Its real-world prevalence remains to be determined.
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