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Figure 2 ECG From a Patient Started on Sotalol

(Top) During AF, there is irregularity of ventricular response creating frequent short-long-short cycles, but there is minimal change in QT intervals. (Middle) After direct current cardioversion, the QT interval has increased dramatically to 640 ms and (bottom) an episode of torsades de pointes is triggered. Abbreviations as in Figure 1.