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Case Reports
. 1979 May;43(5):1053-5.
doi: 10.1016/0002-9149(79)90374-6.

Disopyramide-induced ventricular fibrillation

W J Nicholson, C E Martin, J G Gracey, H R Knoch
Case Reports

Disopyramide-induced ventricular fibrillation

W J Nicholson et al. Am J Cardiol. 1979 May.

Abstract

Three cases are described with documented ventricular fibrillation shortly after the patients received disopyramide in moderate dosage. Electrocardiograms showed markedly prolonged Q-T intervals in two patients and a prominent U wave with a prolonged Q-U interval in one patient, but no change in QRS width. Disopyramide-induced ventricular fibrillation appears to be similar to that caused by quinidine and is an indication to discontinue the drug.

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