Drug interactions with amiodarone

FI Marcus - American heart journal, 1983 - Elsevier
There are a number of important drug interactions with amiodarone. This agent appears to
have a marked effect on the kinetics of some commonly used cardiovascular drugs, such as …

Side effects from amiodarone

JS Wilson, PJ Podrid - American heart journal, 1991 - Elsevier
Amiodarone causes many side effects involving all organ systems (Table VI). Although most
of the side effects are mild and do not limit the use of the drug, there are several that are …

Adverse reactions during treatment with amiodarone hydrochloride.

B McGovern, H Garan, E Kelly, JN Ruskin - Br Med J (Clin Res Ed), 1983 - bmj.com
Amiodarone was administered to 80 patients with recurrent cardiac tachyarrhythmias
previously resistant to drug treatment. Forty nine patients were treated for ventricular …

Side effects of long-term amiodarone therapy.

L Harris, WJ Mckenna, E Rowland, DW Holt… - Circulation, 1983 - Am Heart Assoc
Although amiodarone is an effective antiarrhythmic agent, long-term therapy may be
associated with unwanted effects. We report our experience in 140 patients treated over 5 …

Toxic and therapeutic effects of amiodarone in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias

HL Greene, EL Graham, JA Werner, GK Sears… - Journal of the American …, 1983 - Elsevier
Amiodarone was used to treat cardiac arrhythmias that had been refractory to conventional
medical therapy. The first 70 consecutive patients treated with amiodarone in this study had …

Anaesthesia and amiodarone

BA Liberman, SJ Teasdale - Canadian Anaesthetists' Society Journal, 1985 - Springer
Two recent reports support and one report disputes the existence of dangerous interactions
between the new benzofuran antiarrhythmic amiodarone and the anaesthetic state. We have …

Relationships between amiodarone dosage, drug concentrations, and adverse side effects

JJ Heger, EN Prystowsky, DP Zipes - American heart journal, 1983 - Elsevier
The relationships between size of loading dose and drug concentration, size of maintenance
dose and drug concentration, and pulmonary and cutaneous adverse side effects and drug …

Electrocardiographic and antiarrhythmic effects of intravenous amiodarone: results of a prospective, placebo-controlled study

SH Hohnloser, T Meinertz, T Dammbacher… - American heart …, 1991 - Elsevier
The antiarrhythmic efficacy of intravenously administered amiodarone was examined in a
prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled study that involved 77 patients after coronary …

A comparison of the electrophysiologic effects of intravenous and oral amiodarone in the same patient.

HJ Wellens, P Brugada, H Abdollah, WR Dassen - Circulation, 1984 - Am Heart Assoc
In 12 patients (nine with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and three with ventricular
tachycardia) the electrophysiologic effects of intravenous (5 mg/kg body weight in 1 min) and …

Ten years of experience with amiodarone

MB Rosenbaum, PA Chiale, A Haedo, JO Lázzari… - American heart …, 1983 - Elsevier
Arrhythmias may be controlled in most patients with recurrent supraventricular tachycardia
or atrial fibrillation with small to moderate maintenance doses of amiodarone (100 to 400 …