Amiodarone induced torsades de pointes with excessive QT dispersion following quinidine induced polymorphic ventricular tachycardia

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 9 I, 1997, Pages 2275-2278

  Tran, Hieu T ^a   Chow, Moses S S ^a   Kluger, Jeffrey ^a  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amiodarone; QT dispersion; Quinidine induced torsades de pointes; Torsades de pointes; Ventricular tachyarrhythmia

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; QUINIDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; QT INTERVAL; TORSADE DES POINTES;

ADULT; AMIODARONE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; QUINIDINE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TORSADES DE POINTES;

EID: 0030984197     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb04249.x     Document Type: Article

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