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Amiodarone in Pediatric Patients
Recent interest in cardiac arrhythmias in children has been motivated by a growing awareness and understanding of primai}^ rhythm disorders in the young as well as by an increasing emergence of cardiac arrhythmias following surgical repair of many congenital heart defects.̂ An increased understanding and use of both conventional and investigational antiarrhythmic medications in children has, by ...
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Amiodarone is a viable drug for preventing sudden cardiac death, particularly during the first year after MI. If larger trials confirm the aforementioned prospective trials of Ceremuzynski et al, Cairns et al, and the BASIS trial, the efficacy of amiodarone would outweigh the risk of its side effects during the first year after MI. Based on the long-term observation from the BASIS trial, the du...
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Amiodarone is quite an effective anti-arrhythmic drug indicated for controlling ventricular and supra-ventricular arrhythmias, and it is being widely administered in clinical practice. However, its chronic use may be associated to severe side effects which may be worsened by anesthetic-surgical acts, thus increasing the risk of such procedures. This study aimed at revi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Progress in Electrophysiology and Pacing
سال: 1986
ISSN: 8756-9264
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.1986.tb01730.x