Boston, MA - Patients who receive high doses of the antidepressants citalopram or escitalopram could potentially develop QT-interval prolongation, a marker of a slight increased risk for ventricular ...

Objective: To assess health care practitioners' ability to correctly measure the QT interval, and to identify factors and medications that may increase the risk of QT-interval prolongation and ...

Short QT syndrome is an inheritable primary electrical disease of the heart that was discovered in 1999. The disorder is characterized by an abnormally short QT interval (<300 ms) and a propensity to ...

Similarly, subjects with an increased QT dispersion (QTd), which may mirror discrepant repolarization characteristics of different areas of the heart, show an increased cardiovascular mortality and ...

The QT interval is the time from the beginning of the QRS complex (ventricular depolarization) to the end of the T wave (ventricular repolarization). The normal QT interval is controversial and ...

As more consumer-facing devices add features to measure the heart’s electrical activity, companies are looking for new ways to turn this data into valuable health information. AliveCor, a startup that ...

Long QT syndrome is a leading cause of sudden death in young persons, with a prevalence exceeding 1 in 2000. It is characterized by prolongation of the QT interval, aberrant T-wave morphologic ...

The QT interval on an electrocardiogram signifies the time required for the heart to repolarize after depolarization. It has long been appreciated that a long QT interval predisposes patients to ...

Objectives The short QT syndrome is a cardiac channelopathy characterised by accelerated repolarisation which manifests as a short QT interval on the ECG. The definition of a short QT interval is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN FRANCISCO — Patients who drank 2 L grapefruit juice within several hours had significant corrected QT ...