The Holter recording in an elderly female patient on Risperidone treatment who developed a
longer than expected prolonged QT interval and associated Torsades de Pointes (TdP) at …

We report an idiopathic variant of the long QT syndrome in a 72 year old woman with a
history of recurrent syncope over 3 years who presented with repeated episodes of cardiac …

Torsades DE POINTES is the captivat-ing expression coined by Dessertenne'and adopted
world-wide to describe the ventricular tachyarrhythmias that occur in the setting of QT …

Torsade de pointes is a polymorphic ventricular tachycardia showing a peculiar
electrocardiographic pattern characterised by a continuous twisting in QRS axis around an …

Latent forms of long QT syndrome have been already reported. We describe one case of a
27 years old female patient who experienced an episode of cardiac arrest after several puffs …

Objective: Premature ectopic beats may create a specific sequence of events (eg short–long–
short) preceding Torsade de Pointes arrhythmias (TdP) in the long QT syndrome. The …

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 …

Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a disorder of myocardial repolarization characterized by a
prolonged QT interval on the electrocardiogram (ECG). This disorder is associated with an …

We examined the clinical characteristics and electrocardiographic findings of 7 patients
having the acquired long QT syndrome who developed torsades de pointes while receiving …

The polymorphic ventricular tachycardia torsade de pointes can occur in the congenital long
QT syndromes or as a consequence of therapy with QT‐prolonging drugs. The latter can …