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Case report: A 56-year-old woman presenting with torsades de pointes and cardiac arrest associated with levosimendan administration and underlying congenital long QT syndrome type 1. [PDF]

Heliyon
Zha F, Li X, Yin H, Huang D, Du Y, Zhou C.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Loperamide-Induced Torsades de Pointes. [PDF]

Cureus, 2021
Isang E, Shali L, Morris CB, Mahlow J.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Successful treatment of bepridil-induced intraoperative torsades de pointes by isoproterenol infusion

JA Clinical Reports, 2021
Background Several types of antiarrhythmic drugs are known to induce QT prolongation and torsades de pointes. Case presentation An 84-year-old man was scheduled for open gastrectomy for residual cancer.
Ken Shimano, Kyungho Chang, Yoshiki Hara, Atsushi Yasuda, Shigehito Sawamura   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Torsade de pointes [PDF]

Emergency Medicine Journal, 2002
A case is described of torsade de pointes in a 41 year old woman with pre-existing QTc prolongation, potentially exacerbated by treatment with sotalol. Previous cardiac investigations had been normal and after a second episode of ventricular fibrillation the patient was referred for electrophysiological studies.
P T, Munro, C A, Graham
openaire   +2 more sources

Risk of Cardiac Lesion with Chronic and Acute Use of Loperamide—An Integrative Review

Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 2022
Loperamide is a synthetic opioid commonly used as an antidiarrheal due to its activation of u-opioid receptors in the myenteric plexus. In therapeutic doses, it inhibits peristalsis and has anti-secretory and anti-motility effects, until metabolized by ...
Bruna Cremonezi Lammoglia, Gabriela Hasselmann, Marcelo Pires-Oliveira, Lucas Antonio Duarte Nicolau, Jand Venes Rolim Medeiros, Fernando Sabia Tallo, Murched Omar Taha, Rildo Yamaguti Lima, Afonso Caricati-Neto, Francisco Sandro Menezes-Rodrigues   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Temporal variability of electromechanical-window negativity in patients with inherited long-QT syndrome or drug-induced QT prolongation: relation to torsades de pointes [PDF]

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P Deissler, Anat Berkovitch, A K Rahm, Maurits A. Sikking, Maximilian Moersdorf, Christian Sohns, Marina Rieder, Saranda Nimani, Katja E. Odening, Avi Sabbag, Paul G.A. Volders, Rachel M.A. ter Bekke   +11 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Huffing and twist: Fatal Torsade de pointes associated with Tetrafluoroethane Inhalation and amphetamine use

Clinical Case Reports, 2021
Many volatile chemicals inhaled for a recreational high have a chemical structure similar to chloroform and may lead to Ikr blockade and subsequent torsades de pointes. This is one potential mechanism of action for huffing‐associated sudden death.
Joseph Burke, Mark C. P. Haigney, Morteza Farasat, Philip S. Mehler, Mori J. Krantz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Simultaneous Occurrence of Dysrhythmia and Seizure as a Diagnostic Difficulty; a Case Report

Emergency, 2018
Torsades de pointes (TdP) is a rare but hazardous ventricular dysrhythmia caused by an increase in the QT interval of the heart rhythm and is categorized into congenital or acquired types.
Forod Salehi, Hamidreza Riasi, Hamideh Riasi, Arvin Mirshahi   +3 more
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Torsades de pointes during laparoscopic adrenalectomy of a pheochromocytoma: a case report

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 ...
Wiesfeld Ans CP, Wietasch Götz JK, de Haes Ann, van der Heide Kinge, Hendriks Herman GD   +4 more
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A case of hypoglycemiainduced QT prolongation leading to torsade de pointes and a review of pathophysiological mechanisms

Clinics and Practice, 2017
Torsades de pointes is a life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia. Occurrence of this arrhythmia as a result of hypoglycemia has not been reported in the literature.
Faris Hannoodi, Hashim Alwash, Kushal Shah, Israa Ali, Sarwan Kumar, Khalid Zakaria   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source