delamanidtuberculosisBedaquiline and delamanid used to treat extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis are known to cause prolonged QTc. Two children with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis were put on bedaquiline and delamanid and had prolonged QTc on the Bazett formula but normal QTc by the Fridericia...
Reilly JG, Ayis SA, Ferrier IN, Jones SJ, Thomas SH. QTc interval abnormalities and psychotropic drug therapy in psychiatric patients. Lancet.2000;355:1048-1052.Google Scholar 52. Glassman AH, Bigger JT. Antipsychotic drugs: prolonged QTc interval, torsade de pointes, and sudden death. Am...
For patients with cancer, treatment may include combination therapy, including surgery and immunotherapy. Here, we review perioperative considerations for
(QTc)intervalisquestionableinmany casesandshouldbesupplementedbymanualreading.Incon- sistencybetweenmanufacturersintermsofthealgorithms usedforcalculationoftheintervalsisanotherproblemin theinterpretationofcomputerizedreadings.Somedigitiz- ingmethodsemployadigitizingpad,magnifyinglamp,and pointingdevicetoidentifythe...
Heroin-associated nephropathy (HAN) is now considered to be related to a toxin introduced into the heroin during the processing of the drug. Administration methods like intravenous drug abuse may also result in the spread of hepatitis B and C and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). There have ...