Selective acquired long QT syndrome (saLQTS) upon risperidone treatment

BMC Psychiatry

Case Report

Nicolas Perrin¹  Maciej Jakub Lazarczyk¹  Panteleimon Giannakopoulos²  Zahir A Bhuiyan³ 

[1] Division of General Psychiatry, University Hospitals of Geneva and Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva, 1202, Geneva, Switzerland;Division of General Psychiatry, University Hospitals of Geneva and Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva, 1202, Geneva, Switzerland;Division of Old Age Psychiatry, Hospices-CHUV, 1008, Prilly, Switzerland;Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland;

关键词: Long QT syndrome;    Acquired long QT syndrome;    Selective acquired long QT syndrome;    QT;    Antipsychotic;    Risperidone;    Clozapine;    KCNH2;    hERG;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-244X-12-220

 received in 2012-06-28, accepted in 2012-11-23,  发布年份 2012

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundNumerous structurally unrelated drugs, including antipsychotics, can prolong QT interval and trigger the acquired long QT syndrome (aLQTS). All of them are thought to act at the level of KCNH2, a subunit of the potassium channel. Although the QT-prolonging drugs are proscribed in the subjects with aLQTS, the individual response to diverse QT-prolonging drugs may vary substantially.Case presentationWe report here a case of aLQTS in response to small doses of risperidone that was confirmed at three independent drug challenges in the absence of other QT-prolonging drugs. On the other hand, the patient did not respond with QT prolongation to some other antipsychotics. In particular, the administration of clozapine, known to be associated with higher QT-prolongation risk than risperidone, had no effect on QT-length. A detailed genetic analysis revealed no mutations or polymorphisms in KCNH2, KCNE1, KCNE2, SCN5A and KCNQ1 genes.ConclusionsOur observation suggests that some patients may display a selective aLQTS to a single antipsychotic, without a potassium channel-related genetic substrate. Contrasting with the idea of a common target of the aLQTS-triggerring drugs, our data suggests existence of an alternative target protein, which unlike the KCNH2 would be drug-selective.

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