[Unwanted drug interaction between anti-arrhythmic drugs and drugs used for heart failure].
@article{JawiskaTarnawska2000UnwantedDI, title={[Unwanted drug interaction between anti-arrhythmic drugs and drugs used for heart failure].}, author={Ewa Jaźwińska-Tarnawska and Krystyna Orzechowska-Juzwenko}, journal={Polski merkuriusz lekarski : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego}, year={2000}, volume={9 51}, pages={ 614-7 } }
The appearance of adverse drug reactions may depend on the category of used drugs as well as on the coexistence of a pathological stage. Clinically important are: interactions of digitalis glycoside drugs leading to the occurrence or intensification of toxic symptoms characteristic for those drugs; interactions of antiarrhythmic drugs which may cause proarrhythmic effects and hypotension, and also interactions of nitrates resulting in lowering of the blood pressure. Quinidine, verapamil…
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“Torsade de Pointes” in Patients with Structural Heart Disease and Atrial Fibrillation Treated with Amiodarone, β‐Blockers, and Digitalis
- Medicine, BiologyPacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE
- 2006
The present case reports imply that amiodarone in combination with β‐blocker/digitalis therapy may be associated with an elevated proarrhythmic risk in selected patients with structural heart disease and AF.