Block of the Rapid Component of the Delayed Rectifier Potassium Current by the Prokinetic Agent Cisapride Underlies Drug-Related Lengthening of the QT Interval
- 20 January 1998
- journal article
- other
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 97 (2) , 204-210
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.97.2.204
Abstract
Background—Lengthening of the QT interval and torsades de pointes resulting in cardiac arrests and deaths have been noticed during treatment with cisapride, a newly developed gastrointestinal proki...Keywords
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