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Prolonged Q-T interval following astemizole overdose
1Accident and Emergency Department, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
Archives of Emergency Medicine
|March 1, 1989
Abstract:
Astemizole overdose has been reported to cause torsades-de-pointes and in the present case it caused prolongation of the Q-T interval. Astemizole overdoses should be managed in a similar way to overdose with other cardiotoxic drugs.