Torsade de pointes in a patient with complex medical and psychiatric conditions receiving low‐dose quetiapine

Objective: Describe potential cardiac complications of low‐dose quetiapine and other atypical antipsychotic drugs. Method: We present a case report of a 45‐year‐old Black woman with multiple medical and psychiatric problems taking low‐dose quetiapine. Results: Coincident with a generalized seizur...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica 2005-10, Vol.112 (4), p.318-322
Hauptverfasser:	Vieweg, W. V. R., Schneider, R. K., Wood, M. A.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	African Americans Antipsychotic Agents - adverse effects Antipsychotic Agents - therapeutic use antipsychotics Cardiology Case studies Convulsions & seizures Depressive Disorder, Major - drug therapy Dibenzothiazepines - adverse effects Dibenzothiazepines - therapeutic use Dose-Response Relationship, Drug Electrocardiography Female Humans Middle Aged Pharmacology Psychiatry QT interval Quetiapine Fumarate Risk factors Seizures - etiology torsade de pointes Torsades de Pointes - chemically induced ventricular arrhythmia
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