OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of cisapride on the corrected QT (QTc) interval in infants over a 14-day period. STUDY DESIGN: A prospective cohort study of infants receiving cisapride (0.8 mg/kg per ...

Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are associated with prolongation of the QTc interval on the electrocardiogram (ECG). The QTc-interval prolongation increases the risk of life-threatening arrhythmias.

February 3, 2006-- A recent analysis of the prospective, population-based Rotterdam Study found that prolongation of the heart-rate corrected QT (QTc) interval increased the risk of sudden cardiac ...

Evaluation of utility of pharmacokinetic studies in phase I combination trials. ApoStream, a novel device for antibody-independent capture of circulating cancercells (CCCs) from blood of patients with ...

Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Correspondence to Dr M J Ackerman, Long QT Syndrome Clinic and the Mayo Clinic Windland Smith ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . AliveCor announced it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its mobile, handheld ECG device for the calculation of a ...

Involved-Field Radiotherapy Is Equally Effective and Less Toxic Compared With Extended-Field Radiotherapy After Four Cycles of Chemotherapy in Patients With Early-Stage Unfavorable Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: ...

AliveCor is also offering a service called InstantQT™ to assist in measuring QT intervals through an FDA-cleared, ECG processing software. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the ...

The QT interval is the time from the beginning of the QRS complex, representing ventricular depolarization, to the end of the T wave, resulting from ventricular repolarization. The normal QT interval ...

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 ...

Aim To determine factors affecting the QT interval in athletes and find an improved means of QT correction (QTc) Method Data was gathered from the CAYA (Cardiovascular Assessment in Young Athletes) ...