Objective: To assess health care practitioners' ability to correctly measure the QT interval, and to identify factors and medications that may increase the risk of QT-interval prolongation and ...

The maternal heart significantly adapts to the circulatory needs of pregnancy, but the effect of pregnancy on ventricular repolarization is poorly understood. The aim of this study was to quantify ...

Arsenic trioxide (ATO) is a highly effective agent for the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). QT interval prolongation is common with ATO and can pose a barrier to effective ...

SAN DIEGO, INDIANAPOLIS, and WALTHAM, Mass., July 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMLN), Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and Alkermes, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKS) today ...

One of the principal tasks of an oncologist is to determine whether to administer, reduce the dose, or hold chemotherapy on the basis of patient characteristics, organ function, and toxicities. These ...

Having access to less intrusive QT interval measurement with flexibility around the time and place of the appointment is important 3.1 Psychiatric service user experts explained that it is important ...

Objectives The short QT syndrome is a cardiac channelopathy characterised by accelerated repolarisation which manifests as a short QT interval on the ECG. The definition of a short QT interval is ...

Drinking large quantities of grapefruit juice may prolong the QT interval, especially in women and those who already have long QT syndrome (LQTS), new research suggests. Investigators at Tel Aviv ...

Results to be Included in BYDUREON™ New Drug Application Resubmission in the Third Quarter of 2011 SAN DIEGO & INDIANAPOLIS & WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ...

Results to be Included in BYDUREON™ New Drug Application Resubmission in the Third Quarter of 2011 SAN DIEGO & INDIANAPOLIS & WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ...