Sentences with phrase «fatal heart rhythm»

Clinical data showed that use of these drugs puts patients at risk of potentially serious or even fatal heart rhythm abnormalities.

A particularly fatal heart rhythm, ventricular arrhythmia, may lead to sudden death.

Over the past few years, researchers have identified several mutant genes that cause potentially fatal heart rhythm irregularities, or arrhythmias.

Krill oil may reduce your risk of developing fatal heart rhythms and it may help control blood sugar and alter lipid profiles further protecting the hearts of people suffering from diabetes.

F.D.A. Raises Heart Alert on Antibiotic in Wide Use, New York Times, March 12, 2013 FDA Drug Safety Communication: Azithromycin (Zithromax or Zmax) and the risk of potentially fatal heart rhythms, FDA, March 12, 2013

Not exact matches

«Because sudden cardiac arrest is usually fatal, we are constantly looking for ways to predict which patients are susceptible so we can concentrate on prevention,» said Sumeet Chugh, MD, director of the Heart Rhythm Center in the Cedars - Sinai Heart Institute and the Pauline and Harold Price Chair in Cardiac Electrophysiology Research.

Measuring the levels of sex hormones in patients» blood may identify patients likely to suffer a sudden cardiac arrest, a heart rhythm disorder that is fatal in 95 percent of patients.

Professor Peter Weissberg, Medical Director at the BHF, which helped fund the research, said: «This exciting science explains how the carbon monoxide molecule, which is produced by our heart cells during a heart attack, can protect hearts from potentially fatal disturbances of heart rhythm.

Untreated hyperthyroidism can cause changes in heart rate and rhythm that can potentially be fatal.

Potentially fatal symptoms like seizures and irregular heart rhythms typically occur when dogs get into 18 mg per pound body weight or more.

Digoxin is used less frequently now that there are less toxic drugs available Cats can be more sensitive to side effects than dogs Potential complications include fatal abnormal heart rhythms and kidney failure Most side effects are due to too much digoxin in the bloodstream and can be very serious.

Death is presumed to be the result of a sudden fatal arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm).