QTc and psychotropic drugs

Lancet

Volumn 355, Issue 9223, 2000, Pages 75-76

  De Ponti, F ^a   Poluzzi, E ^a   Montanaro, N ^a   Ferguson, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMISULPRIDE; AMITRIPTYLINE; ASTEMIZOLE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CISAPRIDE; CLARITHROMYCIN; DESIPRAMINE; DOXEPIN; DROPERIDOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GREPAFLOXACIN; HALOFANTRINE; HALOPERIDOL; IMIPRAMINE; LORATADINE; MIZOLASTINE; NORTRIPTYLINE; ONDANSETRON; PENTAMIDINE; PIMOZIDE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SERTINDOLE; SULTOPRIDE; TACROLIMUS; TERFENADINE; THIORIDAZINE;

HUMAN; ITALY; LETTER; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; RISK FACTOR; TACHYCARDIA; TORSADE DES POINTES; UNITED KINGDOM; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG UTILIZATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; NOTE; STATISTICS;

ARRHYTHMIA; DRUG UTILIZATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; ITALY; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RISK FACTORS; TORSADES DE POINTES;

EID: 0034219834     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(05)73412-7     Document Type: Letter

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