Ventricular Tachycardia Induced by Weight Loss Pills

A previously healthy 29-year-old man was admitted with palpitations, dizziness, and near-syncope after he had recently started taking weight loss pills purchased on the internet. The pills contained caffeine and ephedrine. An electrocardiogram and telemetry revealed multiple episodes of non-sustaine...

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Autores principales: Pareek, Manan, Hansson, Nils Henrik, Grove, Erik Lerkevang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3612464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23573098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/712383
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description A previously healthy 29-year-old man was admitted with palpitations, dizziness, and near-syncope after he had recently started taking weight loss pills purchased on the internet. The pills contained caffeine and ephedrine. An electrocardiogram and telemetry revealed multiple episodes of non-sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia, which was successfully treated with amiodarone. In conclusion, unauthorized weight loss pills can be harmful. In particular, ephedrine-containing drugs carry a risk of ventricular tachycardia and should be discouraged.
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spelling pubmed-36124642013-04-09 Ventricular Tachycardia Induced by Weight Loss Pills Pareek, Manan Hansson, Nils Henrik Grove, Erik Lerkevang Case Rep Med Case Report A previously healthy 29-year-old man was admitted with palpitations, dizziness, and near-syncope after he had recently started taking weight loss pills purchased on the internet. The pills contained caffeine and ephedrine. An electrocardiogram and telemetry revealed multiple episodes of non-sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia, which was successfully treated with amiodarone. In conclusion, unauthorized weight loss pills can be harmful. In particular, ephedrine-containing drugs carry a risk of ventricular tachycardia and should be discouraged. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3612464/ /pubmed/23573098 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/712383 Text en Copyright © 2013 Manan Pareek et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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