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STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

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There is also bradycardia. Bradycardia puts patients at risk for "pause-dependent" Torsades de Pointes. Torsades in acquired long QT is much more likely in bradycardia because the QT interval following a long pause is longer still. The corrected QT interval is extremely long, about 500 ms. Armstrong, MD Arch Intern Med.

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