Ventricular Tachycardia Storm Induced by Loperamide Abuse

A recent increase in the incidence of ventricular arrhythmias has been observed with the consumption of large dosages of the anti-diarrheal agent, loperamide. Our case is unique in that our patient not only displayed ventricular tachycardia (VT) but sustained VT (known as a VT storm). In this era of...

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Autores principales: Al-khatib, Jihad, Vindhyal, Shravani R, Boppana, Venkata S, Vindhyal, Mohinder R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6440553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30967981
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3981
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author Al-khatib, Jihad
Vindhyal, Shravani R
Boppana, Venkata S
Vindhyal, Mohinder R
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description A recent increase in the incidence of ventricular arrhythmias has been observed with the consumption of large dosages of the anti-diarrheal agent, loperamide. Our case is unique in that our patient not only displayed ventricular tachycardia (VT) but sustained VT (known as a VT storm). In this era of the opioid crisis, clinicians should be aware of all of the over-the-counter medications that have opioid-like side effects. 
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spelling pubmed-64405532019-04-09 Ventricular Tachycardia Storm Induced by Loperamide Abuse Al-khatib, Jihad Vindhyal, Shravani R Boppana, Venkata S Vindhyal, Mohinder R Cureus Cardiology A recent increase in the incidence of ventricular arrhythmias has been observed with the consumption of large dosages of the anti-diarrheal agent, loperamide. Our case is unique in that our patient not only displayed ventricular tachycardia (VT) but sustained VT (known as a VT storm). In this era of the opioid crisis, clinicians should be aware of all of the over-the-counter medications that have opioid-like side effects.  Cureus 2019-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6440553/ /pubmed/30967981 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3981 Text en Copyright © 2019, Al-khatib et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Cardiology
Al-khatib, Jihad
Vindhyal, Shravani R
Boppana, Venkata S
Vindhyal, Mohinder R
Ventricular Tachycardia Storm Induced by Loperamide Abuse
title Ventricular Tachycardia Storm Induced by Loperamide Abuse
title_full Ventricular Tachycardia Storm Induced by Loperamide Abuse
title_fullStr Ventricular Tachycardia Storm Induced by Loperamide Abuse
title_full_unstemmed Ventricular Tachycardia Storm Induced by Loperamide Abuse
title_short Ventricular Tachycardia Storm Induced by Loperamide Abuse
title_sort ventricular tachycardia storm induced by loperamide abuse
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6440553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30967981
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3981
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