Abuse of over the counter drugs often gets overlooked by health care providers. Loperamide is one such over the counter drug that is often abused by drug addicts.We present here a case of a youngmale attaining euphoria from takingmassive doses of loperamide. He developed Torsades de Pointes and subsequent cardiac arrest. We found similarities in the progression of myocardial electrical conducti...

We report a case of recurrent episodes of Torsades de Pointes arrhythmia in the setting of transiently impaired left ventricular ejection fraction, acute respiratory distress syndrome, transient hypokalaemia and QT-prolonging drugs, in a previously healthy 25-yr-old female patient. In the course of the clinical and genetic work-up this patient was newly diagnosed with a mutation in KCNH2 encodi...