Loperamide-Induced Ventricular Tachycardia Storm

Loperamide is an over-the-counter antilaxative medication with minor opioid properties. For this reason, it has recently become a drug of concern for the Food and Drug Administration due to its potential for abuse. In addition, further apprehension pertaining to its over-the-counter availability has...

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Autores principales: Giesing, William, Koester, Cameron, Al-Akchar, Mohammad, Kulkarni, Abhishek, Labedi, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2022
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9272451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35833161
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1749628
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author Giesing, William
Koester, Cameron
Al-Akchar, Mohammad
Kulkarni, Abhishek
Labedi, Mohamed
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description Loperamide is an over-the-counter antilaxative medication with minor opioid properties. For this reason, it has recently become a drug of concern for the Food and Drug Administration due to its potential for abuse. In addition, further apprehension pertaining to its over-the-counter availability has developed due to the recent increase in reported cases of loperamide overdose or prolonged use leading to arrhythmias. We described a rare case of loperamide-induced ventricular tachycardia storm.
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spelling pubmed-92724512022-07-12 Loperamide-Induced Ventricular Tachycardia Storm Giesing, William Koester, Cameron Al-Akchar, Mohammad Kulkarni, Abhishek Labedi, Mohamed Avicenna J Med Loperamide is an over-the-counter antilaxative medication with minor opioid properties. For this reason, it has recently become a drug of concern for the Food and Drug Administration due to its potential for abuse. In addition, further apprehension pertaining to its over-the-counter availability has developed due to the recent increase in reported cases of loperamide overdose or prolonged use leading to arrhythmias. We described a rare case of loperamide-induced ventricular tachycardia storm. Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2022-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9272451/ /pubmed/35833161 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1749628 Text en Syrian American Medical Society. This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commercial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Loperamide-Induced Ventricular Tachycardia Storm
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