Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than 13% of users of quetiapine and haloperidol developed severe QT prolongation. Severe QT prolongation ...

One of the principal tasks of an oncologist is to determine whether to administer, reduce the dose, or hold chemotherapy on the basis of patient characteristics, organ function, and toxicities. These ...

Some oral contraceptives were associated with greater cardiovascular risk among women with inherited long QT syndrome (LQTS), a registry study showed. Progestin-only oral contraceptive users had a ...

Moxifloxacin (MX) is an 8-methoxyquinolone antimicrobial drug, which is often used as a positive control in thorough QT (TQT) studies. In the present study we established the population ...

Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2012;35(12):1409-1410. I have attended the annual meeting of the International Society of Computerized Electrocardiology, held in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 20 to 24, ...

Perhaps 40% of persons with genetically confirmed long-QT syndrome (LQTS) do not show the telltale electrocardiographic (ECG) feature, a prolonged heart-rate-corrected QT (QTc) interval, when their 12 ...

Researchers have reported the strong diagnostic ability of treadmill exercise stress testing to uncover long QT syndrome in patients. New data show that the recovery phase displays significant and ...

As more consumer-facing devices add features to measure the heart’s electrical activity, companies are looking for new ways to turn this data into valuable health information. AliveCor, a startup that ...

Aim To determine factors affecting the QT interval in athletes and find an improved means of QT correction (QTc) Method Data was gathered from the CAYA (Cardiovascular Assessment in Young Athletes) ...

INTRODUCTION: QT prolongation and obesity are associated with ventricular arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death. The relationship between uncomplicated obesity and QT interval prolongation is not clear.

An asymptomatic male patient with definite LQTS with a normal ECG and QTc who was flagged by the AI. Photo Credit: J. Martijn Bos and Michael Ackerman. A new artificial intelligence (AI) solution ...