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Todesursache: Medikamenteninduzierte Verlängerung des QT-Intervalls

Groth, O.; Roider, G.; Graw, M. · MMW - Fortschritte der Medizin · 2024 · Heft 11 · S. 48 bis 51

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MMW - Fortschritte der Medizin
Autor:innen
Groth, O.; Roider, G.; Graw, M.
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Heft 11 / 2024
Jahrgang 166
Seiten
48 bis 51
Erschienen: 2024-11-01 00:00:00
ISSN
1613-3560
DOI
10.1007/s15006-024-4345-x

Zusammenfassung

Some drugs prolong the QT interval, which can be fatal in the presence of other risk factors. In the 3040 forensic autopsy cases that underwent toxicological analysis over the past five years, in which no certain cause of death could be identified, at least one drug with QT interval prolonging potential was detected in 188 individuals (6%). Risk factors for cardiac events, incl. a history of drug and/or alcohol abuse (45%), pathological cardiovascular changes (66%), and more than one QT-prolonging drug (64%) pointed toward fatal arrhythmic events resulting from the drug, of which antipsychotics were the most pre…

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Which Interval Fatal Factors Events Drugs Prolong Presence Other Forensic Autopsy Cases MMW - Fortschritte der Medizin