Time-to-Onset Analysis of Drug-Induced Long QT Syndrome Based on a Spontaneous Reporting System for Adverse Drug Events.

Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a disorder of the heart's electrical activity that infrequently causes severe ventricular arrhythmias such as a type of ventricular tachycardia called torsade de pointes (TdP) and ventricular fibrillation, which can be fatal. There have been no previous reports on the...

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Main Authors: Sayaka Sasaoka, Toshinobu Matsui, Yuuki Hane, Junko Abe, Natsumi Ueda, Yumi Motooka, Haruna Hatahira, Akiho Fukuda, Misa Naganuma, Shiori Hasegawa, Yasutomi Kinosada, Mitsuhiro Nakamura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5056697?pdf=render