It can trigger a heart attack or even potentially worse a lethal heart rhythm disturbance.
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Nevertheless, this dangerous heart rhythm can lead to serious clinical consequences, if not managed appropriately.
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The results did not address whether the drug helps in other heart rhythm disorder.
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Current classes of antibiotics often have side effects, includ-ing changes in heart rhythm and liver toxicity.
Called the Reveal, the device continuously recorded about 42 minutes of heart rhythm data.
The concern from the FDA is over a heart rhythm abnormality called long QT syndrome.
If the heart rhythm isn't restored, which requires a defibrillator, death usually occurs within 10 to 12 minutes.
Apart from that, the results might assure doctors that Ranexa does not cause deadly changes in heart rhythm.
These minimal procedures used to be done just to unclog arteries and correct less common heart rhythm problems.
The U.S.-made monitors, known as Zephyr BioHarnesses, will record the miners' vital signs, pulse, heart rhythm and breathing.
The company publicly asked the journal, which is published by the Heart Rhythm Society, to retract the article.
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Huge numbers of patients around the world take fish oil pills in hopes of preventing common heart rhythm problems.
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Worries about changes in heart rhythm that had plagued Geodon after it was approved did not turn up in CATIE.
The Heart Rhythm Society, a medical group, hasn't advised doctors whether to remove the leads, and is awaiting further data.
The campaign is run in association with Bolton Wanderers, the Arrhythmia Alliance based in Stratford-upon-Avon and the Heart Rhythm Charity.
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Other common symptoms include arm, neck, jaw, back or upper stomach discomfort, dizziness, change in heart rhythm and sudden cold sweats.
Fish oil capsules failed to prevent flare-ups of atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm problem, in a large study in 2010.
Atrial fibrillation occurs in more than 2 million Americans and is one of the most common types of abnormal heart rhythm.
"This development should enable us to explore the potential of new drugs and the treatment of heart rhythm disorders, " he said.
In these cases doctors looked for abnormalities, like an unusual heart rhythm.
It constantly watches the body's heart rhythm and delivers a brief electric current to the heart if necessary to adjust the pacing.
He went into shock, and died when his heart rhythm went haywire.
Mr Flood suffers from an irregular heart rhythm condition called atrial fibrillation.
It is thought there are about two million people with heart rhythm problems in the UK, although many of these will be undiagnosed.
This time the agency asked for a new study to test the effect of a high dose of the drug on heart rhythm.
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They will also demonstrate a device that uses an MR scanner along with X-rays to create better information for surgeons treating heart rhythm abnormalities.
The companies ran the required test and in June said results showed Bydureon wasn't associated with a clinically relevant prolonged measure of heart rhythm.
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In clinical trials the gadget was able, two-thirds of the time, to affirm or deny whether a heart rhythm problem had caused a fainting episode.
One potential safety worry is whether the myoblast implants could cause heart rhythm abnormalities, which were seen in four of the ten patients in the initial Menasche trial.
The FDA also rejected another medicine, for heart rhythm problems.
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