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Prolonged QT interval in an infant of a fluoxetine treated mother.

Dubnov G, Fogelman R, Merlob P

Department of Neonatology, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva, Israel. gald@clalit.org.il

Fluoxetine is an antidepressant drug, only recently discovered to be a QT interval prolonging agent. The first case is presented of an infant of a mother treated with fluoxetine during pregnancy who had a transiently prolonged QTc interval, concluded to be drug induced. Clinical and electrocardiographic monitoring of newborns of antidepressant treated mothers is needed.

Published 22 August 2005 in Arch Dis Child, 90(9): 972-3.
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