Trazodone-related exercise-induced nonsustained ventricular tachycardia.
A 79-year-old woman in the course of a syncope evaluation is shown to have a trazodone-related cardiac arrhythmia confirmed by drug rechallenge. This nontricyclic antidepressant should be considered as potentially arrhythmogenic despite its generally favorable cardiovascular profile.
Vitullo
R N
RN
Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710.
Wharton
J M
JM
Allen
N B
NB
Pritchett
E L
EL
D000368:Aged; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000139:chemically induced*; D014196:Trazodone / Q000009:adverse effects*
D014196:Trazodone