Short‐term use of oral amiodarone causing torsades de pointes

Amiodarone is one of the most commonly used antiarrhythmic drugs. Despite its well‐known side effects, amiodarone is considered to be a relatively safe drug, especially in short‐term usage to prevent life‐threatening ventricular arrhythmias. Our case demonstrates an instance where short‐term usage c...

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Autores principales: Yau, Stephen, Chan, Patrick, Sapkin, Joshua, Hsieh, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6099002/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30147903
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1659
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description Amiodarone is one of the most commonly used antiarrhythmic drugs. Despite its well‐known side effects, amiodarone is considered to be a relatively safe drug, especially in short‐term usage to prevent life‐threatening ventricular arrhythmias. Our case demonstrates an instance where short‐term usage can yield drug side effect.
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spelling pubmed-60990022018-08-24 Short‐term use of oral amiodarone causing torsades de pointes Yau, Stephen Chan, Patrick Sapkin, Joshua Hsieh, Eric Clin Case Rep Case Reports Amiodarone is one of the most commonly used antiarrhythmic drugs. Despite its well‐known side effects, amiodarone is considered to be a relatively safe drug, especially in short‐term usage to prevent life‐threatening ventricular arrhythmias. Our case demonstrates an instance where short‐term usage can yield drug side effect. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6099002/ /pubmed/30147903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1659 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6099002/
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