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Torsade de Pointes during oral arsenic trioxide therapy for acute promyelocytic leukemia in a patient with heart failure

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  1. Division of Cardiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Jo Jo Hai, Hung-Fat Tse & Chung-Wah Siu

  2. Division of Haematology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Harinder Gill & Yok-Lam Kwong

  3. Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Cyrus R. Kumana

  4. Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

    Chung-Wah Siu

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Hai, J.J., Gill, H., Tse, HF. et al. Torsade de Pointes during oral arsenic trioxide therapy for acute promyelocytic leukemia in a patient with heart failure. Ann Hematol 94, 501–503 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-014-2174-1

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