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Torsade de pointes associated with perhexiline maleate therapy
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine
|December 1, 1990
Abstract:
Multiform ventricular tachycardia (torsade de pointes) is a recognised proarrhythmic effect of drugs which prolong the QT interval. A case is now described for the first time where torsade de pointes occurred with the administration of the anti-anginal agent perhexiline maleate.