Cellular basis of drug-induced torsades de pointes
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Drug-induced torsades de pointes and implications for drug development.
Torsades de pointes is a potentially lethal arrhythmia that occasionally appears as an adverse effect of pharmacotherapy. Recently developed understanding of the underlying electrophysiology allows better estimation of the drug-induced risks and explains the failures of older approaches through the surface ECG. This article expresses a consensus reached by an independent academic task force on ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Pharmacology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0007-1188
DOI: 10.1038/bjp.2008.238