Proarrhythmia as a class effect of quinolones: increased dispersion of repolarization and triangulation of action potential predict torsades de pointes.

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Published in J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol on March 28, 2007

Authors

Peter Milberg1, Ekkehard Hilker, Shahram Ramtin, Yilmaz Cakir, Jörg Stypmann, Markus A Engelen, Gerold Mönnig, Nani Osada, Günter Breithardt, Wilhelm Haverkamp, Lars Eckardt

Author Affiliations

1: Hospital of the Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Münster, Germany. milbergp@uni-muenster.de

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