Phenytoin in treatment of amiodarone-induced Torsades de pointes

Phenytoin, a class IB anti-arrhythmic agent, is considered the drug of choice for ventricular arrhythmias due to digoxin toxicity. We report successful reversion of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia secondary to amiodarone toxicity by phenytoin administration that was resistant to the conventional...

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Autores principales: Mukhopadhyay, Saibal, Chakraborty, Praloy, Yusuf, Jamal, Goyal, Anuj, Tyagi, Sanjay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3326926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22529489
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.93866
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author Mukhopadhyay, Saibal
Chakraborty, Praloy
Yusuf, Jamal
Goyal, Anuj
Tyagi, Sanjay
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description Phenytoin, a class IB anti-arrhythmic agent, is considered the drug of choice for ventricular arrhythmias due to digoxin toxicity. We report successful reversion of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia secondary to amiodarone toxicity by phenytoin administration that was resistant to the conventional drugs (magnesium sulphate, lidocaine and atropine).
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spelling pubmed-33269262012-04-23 Phenytoin in treatment of amiodarone-induced Torsades de pointes Mukhopadhyay, Saibal Chakraborty, Praloy Yusuf, Jamal Goyal, Anuj Tyagi, Sanjay Indian J Pharmacol Case Report Phenytoin, a class IB anti-arrhythmic agent, is considered the drug of choice for ventricular arrhythmias due to digoxin toxicity. We report successful reversion of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia secondary to amiodarone toxicity by phenytoin administration that was resistant to the conventional drugs (magnesium sulphate, lidocaine and atropine). Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3326926/ /pubmed/22529489 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.93866 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Pharmacology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tyagi, Sanjay
Phenytoin in treatment of amiodarone-induced Torsades de pointes
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title_fullStr Phenytoin in treatment of amiodarone-induced Torsades de pointes
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title_short Phenytoin in treatment of amiodarone-induced Torsades de pointes
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