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Quinolone antibiotics also pose a difficult dilemma. They are used on a wide scale for common infections without checking the ECG, an approach generally agreed on by the aforementioned LQTS experts (Box). Yet, sporadic episodes of torsades de pointes have been reported in association with quinolone...