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Torsades de pointes following vaccination for COVID-19 [PDF]
HeartRhythm Case Reports, 2022 Victor A. Abrich, MD, FHRS +1 more
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Long QT Syndrome and Perioperative Torsades de Pointes: What the Anesthesiologist Should Know.
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, 2020 Perioperative Torsade de Pointes (TdP) is a potentially fatal arrhythmia. The association between the prolongation of corrected QT (QTc) interval and TdP has been well described, but prolonged QTc interval is likely not to be a sole determinant.
N. Niimi +2 more
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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 +9 more
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Torsades de Pointes due to Excessive Marijuana Use in a Susceptible Patient
Case Reports in Cardiology, 2021 There are several recent reports of tetrahydrocannabinol vaping-related sudden cardiac arrest, and the mechanisms are unclear. We report a unique case of a 19-year-old female who suffered documented prolonged QTc leading to Torsades de pointes and ...
Vivek D. Shah +4 more
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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 +3 more
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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 +4 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 +4 more
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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 +5 more
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Torsades de pointes in the PACU after outpatient endoscopy: a case report
BMC Anesthesiology, 2021 Background This case demonstrates the severe electrolyte derangements that may present after a common therapy such as a bowel preparation for an outpatient procedure and the rare yet potential detrimental outcomes of those abnormalities.
Andrew Schaar +2 more
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Hypogonadism as a Reversible Cause of Torsades de Pointes in Men.
Circulation, 2018 Long QT intervals corrected for rate (QTc) >480 to 500 milliseconds predispose to the polymorphic ventricular tachycardia torsades de pointes (TdP).1 Because QTc is shorter and TdP is less frequent in men than in women and because testosterone shortens ...
J. Salem +17 more
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