title: Torsades de pointes: arrhythmia, syndrome, or chimera?
abstract: Although torsades de pointes is not a tightly demarcated entity, the diagnosis has important clinical implications. The concept should be retained.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
authors.forename: R N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Millar
mesh_terms: D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008133:Long QT Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology; D013577:Syndrome; D016171:Torsades de Pointes / Q000145:classification* / Q000503:physiopathology