QT lengthening and life-threatening arrhythmias associated with fexofenadine

Lancet. 1999 Mar 20;353(9157):980. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(99)01009-0.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Electrocardiography / drug effects*
  • Histamine H1 Antagonists / adverse effects*
  • Humans
  • Long QT Syndrome / chemically induced*
  • Male
  • Syncope / chemically induced
  • Tachycardia, Ventricular / chemically induced
  • Terfenadine / adverse effects
  • Terfenadine / analogs & derivatives*
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / chemically induced

Substances

  • Histamine H1 Antagonists
  • Terfenadine
  • fexofenadine