Monitoring of QT interval in patients treated with psychotropis drugs

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Authors	NOVOTNÝ Tomáš FLORIÁNOVÁ Alena ČEŠKOVÁ Eva PÁLENSKÝ Vítězslav TOMANOVÁ Jana ŠIŠÁKOVÁ Martina TOMAN Ondřej ŠPINAR Jindřich
Year of publication	2007
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	International Journal of Cardiology
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Medicine
Citation
Field	Psychiatry, sexuology
Keywords	Drug induced long QT syndrome; Proarrhythmia; Psychotropic drugs; QT interval
Description	Our 2-year real-life experience shows that occurrence of QTc prolongation in present psychiatric patients is low. Values associated with high risk of arrhythmias (QTc plus 500 ms) were not observed. This might be related to the recent changes of spectrum of antipsychotic therapy used, the general trend to use lower doses, and increasing awareness about the drug-induced long QT symdrome.
Related projects:	Molecular genetic aspects of proarrhythmic of non-antiarrhythmic drugs