QTc Interval Prolongation and Life-Threatening Arrhythmias During Hospitalization in Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Results From a Multicenter Prospective Registry.
Francesco SantoroFrancesco MonitilloPasquale RaimondoAgostino LopizzoGaetano BrindicciMichele GilioFrancesco MusaicoMichele MazzolaDomenico VestitoRossella Di BenedettoMohammad AbumayyalehIbrahim El-BattrawyCarmen Rita SantoroLuigi Flavio Massimiliano Di MartinoIbrahim AkinGiulio De StefanoRosario FiorilliMichele CannoneAnnalisa SaracinoSalvatore AngaranoSergio CarbonaraSalvatore GrassoLuigi Di BiaseNatale Daniele BrunettiPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
After 7 days of hospitalization, 14% of patients with COVID-19 developed pQTc; age, basal heart rate, and dual antiviral therapy were found to be independent predictors of pQTc. Life-threatening arrhythmias have an incidence rate of 3.6%, and were associated with a poor outcome.