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Post myocardial ischemia-associated torsades de pointes in a patient carrying a KCNQ1 G643S variant.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jan 2010
Nakajima Tadashi, Kaneko Yoshiaki, Saito Akihiro, Irie Tadanobu, Kato Toshimitsu, Iso Tatsuya, Kurabayashi Masahiko
Abstract excerpt
Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, which occurs during the subacute phase of myocardial infarction (MI) or ischemia and is not related to ongoing ischemia, has recently been reported. It has characteristics of typical pause-dependent torsades de pointes (TdP) following excessive QT prolongation (post MI/ischemia-associated TdP). We describe a male patient with post MI/ischemia-associated TdP. The patient...
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