QT prolongation occurs when the heart muscle takes longer to contract and relax than usual. It can affect heart rhythms and lead to sudden cardiac arrest. The heart is a muscle that contracts and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with married people, unmarried people were more likely to have a prolonged QT interval, according to ...

The QT interval is the time from the beginning of the QRS complex (ventricular depolarization) to the end of the T wave (ventricular repolarization). The normal QT interval is controversial and ...

Long QT interval is a condition that affects the heart’s electrical rhythm, which can lead to potentially life threatening arrhythmia. Behind the pumping action of the heart is an electrical ...

As more consumer-facing devices add features to measure the heart’s electrical activity, companies are looking for new ways to turn this data into valuable health information. AliveCor, a startup that ...

(HealthDay News) — Use of a computerized clinical decision support system (CDSS) may reduce the risk of prolonged QT c interval in hospitalized patients at risk for torsades de pointes, according to ...

Studies comparing MMT to buprenorphine maintenance treatment (BMT) over 5-years found buprenorphine to be a safer drug for opioid maintenance treatment as it had no significant effect on QT ...

MONTREAL, Aug. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Thryv Therapeutics Inc. today announced positive results of the WAVE 1 Proof of Concept clinical study evaluating LQT-1213 for the reduction of QTcF in ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Consuming a large quantity of grapefruit juice has effects on the QT interval in healthy adults similar to those seen with moxifloxacin, an antibiotic with known QT-prolonging ...

THE case reported below represents a new and very distinct clinical entity. The young patient was observed by us for some years. It was hoped that a similar combination of clinical findings might be ...

ROCHESTER, MN — A significant number of patients given implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) for long-QT syndrome (LQTS) receive them for reasons outside of current guidelines, and many ...