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Torsades: adjacent and triggering electrocardiographic events.
Journal of electrocardiology - 1 Jan 2000
Childers Rory
Abstract excerpt
Torsades de pointes (TdP) is a particular variant of ventricular arrhythmia associated with the long QT syndrome. The background of the latter is essentially 2-fold: patients under treatment with QT-prolonging drugs and subjects with congenital ionopathies. A third category is composed of subjects with both of these backgrounds. The fundamental feature of TdP is its provocation by pause-related augmentation of...
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