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Российский кардиологический журнал, 2002 The first experience of implanted cardioverter/ defibrillator in a patient with life-threatening torsades de pointes.
E. V. Kolpakov +3 more
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Mechanisms of torsades de pointes: an update [PDF]
Frontiers in Cardiovascular MedicineTorsades de Pointes (TdP) refers to a polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (VT) with undulating QRS axis that occurs in long QT syndrome (LQTS), although the term has been used to describe polymorphic ventricular tachyarrhythmias in which QT intervals are
Yukiomi Tsuji +5 more
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QT Prolongation Complicated with Torsades de Pointes in Prosthetic Mitral Valve Endocarditis: A Case Report [PDF]
Case Reports in Medicine, 2012 We present the case of a 49-year-old male patient with prosthetic mitral valve endocarditis associated with QT prolongation and torsades de pointes. He was asymptomatic until the end of January 2012, when he was admitted to our hospital emergency unit ...
A. Tounsi +4 more
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Sleep-Associated Torsades de Pointes: A Case Report [PDF]
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2017 Torsades de Pointes (TdP) is a polymorphic ventricular tachycardia that occurs in the presence of an acquired or congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS). We present the case of a 57 year-old man with end-stage renal disease on methadone maintenance in which ...
Guy Carmelli, Ian S. deSouza
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A rare case of myotonic dystrophy type 1 presenting with Torsades de pointes
IHJ Cardiovascular Case Reports, 2023 Myotonic Dystrophy (DM) is the most common form of muscular dystrophy with onset in adults. Cardiac manifestations are common in DM, but ventricular arrhythmias are uncommon and torsades de pointes is rarely described.
Amit Handa, Rinki Kakkar
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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 +4 more
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Torsades de pointes due to oral sitafloxacin [PDF]
Acute Medicine & Surgery, 2023 Yugo Wakayama +5 more
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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
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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/TAILOR_PCI_Bayesian: Version 1.0
, 2021 Basic Code File for TAILOR-PCI Bayesian ...
torsades-de-pointes
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