The Clinical Development of Disopyramide
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Disopyramide was synthesised around 1959. Since its structure is not related to any other known antiarrhythmis drug, one can only suppose that its discovery was serendipity. Initial studies on dysopyramide led workers to conclude that disopyramide was very similar in its activity to quinidine but we now know this is not completely true. Unfortunately; the original French clinical investigations were subjective and anecdotal in nature. Perhaps medicine is more of a science than an art in the UK, while in France it tends to be
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