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[Lengthening of QT interval by antipsychotic drugs].
Der Nervenarzt 2006 March
Prolongation of myocardial repolarisation, i.e. lengthening of the QT interval on surface electrocardiogram, has been recognised as a side effect of many drugs, including antipsychotics. In predisposed individuals, abnormal excessive QT prolongation and severe ventricular arrhythmias (the ventricular tachycardia type 'torsade de pointes', or TdP) may occur. In almost all cases, additional factors are present that increase the propensity of patients to develop TdP, such as serum hypokalemia, the combination of drugs prolonging repolarisation, overdosing, intoxication, and factors interfering with drug metabolism and excretion. Serum hypokalemia and/or bradycardia may induce TdP alone, in the absence of drugs prolonging the QT interval. Experimental studies demonstrate that prolongation of myocardial repolarisation is a class effect of neuroleptics. Clinically, the extent to which individual drugs prolong the QT interval varies. Among the antipsychotics, thioridazine has the greatest propensity to induce abnormal QT prolongations and TdP. Case reports of TdP with other antipsychotics have been published. Physicians prescribing physicians these drugs must be aware that they can induce proarrhythmia in individual cases. They should also be aware of the circumstances which are necessary for abnormal QT prolongation and TdP to develop. Patients should be monitored with regard to these risk factors before and during drug treatment.
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