Complete heart block following a single dose of trazodone
- 1 November 1984
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 141 (11) , 1472-1473
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.11.1472
Abstract
Forty minutes after receiving a single starting dose of trazodone, a patient developed complete heart block. The case illustrates that, despite the results of earlier studies, trazodone's effect on cardiac conduction may be severe in individuals at risk for conduction delay.Keywords
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