Flecainide induced ventricular tachycardia (torsades de pointes)

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1907-1908

  Thevenin, Jerome ^a   Da Costa, Antoine ^a,b   Roche, Frederic ^a   Romeyer, Cecile ^a   Messier, Marc ^a   Isaaz, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

Flecainide; Torsades de pointes

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; FLECAINIDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART PALPITATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; SYNCOPE; TORSADE DES POINTES; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLECAINIDE; HUMANS; TORSADES DE POINTES;

EID: 0141519143     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.00290.x     Document Type: Article

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