Torsades de Pointes after treatment with terfenadine and ketoconazole

1 July 1992

journal article
case report
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Heart Journal

Vol. 13 (7) , 1002-1003
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.eurheartj.a060277

Abstract

An episode of QT prolongation with symptomatic Torsades de Pointes is described which developed in a 22-year-old healthy female following 5 days therapy with terfenadine and ketoconazole on an ordinary dosage.

Keywords

TORSADES POINTES
TERFENADINE
KETOCONAZOLE
VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS