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Torsade De Pointes After Being Treated With Amiodorone After Heart Attack. Caused By Amiodorone?

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I was treated with amiodorone after a heart attack (conorony artery blockage, stents installed) in Dec 2011, and according to 4 of 5 cardiologists advising me, it was the reason I had 5 Toursades incidents - of course nearly dying - in the period of one week. Four of five said the amidorodne was the cause, that it is great for most patients but a couple out of 1000 experience traumatic event. Treatment wo as at Good Samaritan in San Jose, California. Curious what your research has found, as, although the doctors at Good Sam were pretty clear on the cause of the near death incidents, you don't see this in the research. Do you have a way to see if my incident was reported by Good Sam to the makers of amiodorone, as that would be he obvious first step in ID'ing a remedial treatment, Thanks
Sat, 8 Jun 2013
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Hi User
Thanks for posting query
Torsade De pointes is a kind of arrhythmia due to prolonged QT interval.That can produce near death situation.
It is one of the known side effect of Amiodarone. It is advisable to keep watch on QT interval if some body is taking amiodarone for long time. Corrected QT interval (QTc) sholud be
Prolonged QTc should be treated with intravenous magnesium supplement.some time we have to pace to keep heart rate fast (overdrive pacing) which reduces effective QT interval (QTc)
Hope this information might help you.
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Torsade De Pointes After Being Treated With Amiodorone After Heart Attack. Caused By Amiodorone?

Hi User Thanks for posting query Torsade De pointes is a kind of arrhythmia due to prolonged QT interval.That can produce near death situation. It is one of the known side effect of Amiodarone. It is advisable to keep watch on QT interval if some body is taking amiodarone for long time. Corrected QT interval (QTc) sholud be Prolonged QTc should be treated with intravenous magnesium supplement.some time we have to pace to keep heart rate fast (overdrive pacing) which reduces effective QT interval (QTc) Hope this information might help you.