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Successful treatment of bepridil-induced intraoperative torsades de pointes by isoproterenol infusion

BACKGROUND: Several types of antiarrhythmic drugs are known to induce QT prolongation and torsades de pointes. CASE PRESENTATION: An 84-year-old man was scheduled for open gastrectomy for residual cancer. He had been prescribed bepridil for atrial fibrillation that converted to sinus rhythm with pro...

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Autores principales: Shimano, Ken, Chang, Kyungho, Hara, Yoshiki, Yasuda, Atsushi, Sawamura, Shigehito
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8514600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34643822
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40981-021-00475-3