| Literature DB >> 16574528 |
Konstantinos Letsas, Panagiotis Korantzopoulos, Loucas Pappas, Dimitrios Evangelou, Michalis Efremidis, Fotis Kardaras.
Abstract
A significant number of non-antiarrhythmic drugs including psychotropic agents have been shown to prolong cardiac repolarization increasing the risk for torsade de pointes ventricular tachycardia. We briefly describe a 60-year-old woman who admitted to the hospital due to hypertension and mild dyspnea having a prolonged QT interval (QTc: 582 ms). The patient had a known history of depression treated with venlafaxine. The QT interval normalised a few days after cessation of the antidepressant agent. This is the first report of venlafaxine-induced QT interval prolongation.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 16574528 DOI： 10.1016/j.ijcard.2005.03.065
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Cardiol ISSN： 0167-5273 Impact factor: 4.164