A 59-year-old man suffering from chronic bronchitis, arteritis of the lower limbs, and ischemic
heart disease was admitted for pulmonary edema. He had no symptom of right heart failure …

A 63-year-old man presented with ascites after therapy with amiodarone, 200 mg orally once
per day for 22.5 months. A liver biopsy showed grade 3 chronic hepatitis and micronodular …

Two fatal cases of amiodarone-induced acute, confluent, necrotic hepatitis are described.
The patients, aged 28 and 60, had received a high loading dose of amiodarone. After the …

In April 2002, an 83-year-old woman was admitted in emergency with an 8-hour history of
dyspnea and palpitations. The patient referred a diagnosis of cardiomyopathy 6 months …

The authors report the case of a non-alcoholic 73-year-old man, treated for arrhythmia with
amiodarone for 2 months, and hospitalized because of jaundice and hepatomegaly. There …

To our knowledge, eight cases of amiodarone-induced acute hepatitis have been reported
in the literature (4, 9-153. They are characterized by:(a) occurrence after a low cumulative …

A 61 year old man, treated with amiodarone since 1993 for resistant supraventricular
arrhythmias, developed acute hepatitis after an intravenous amiodarone administration …

A 64-year-old man developed a fulminant hepatitis 4 days after initiation of amiodarone
treatment and a total dose of 7.1 g. The direct Coombs test was positive and became …

Amiodarone is a widely used and effective long-term antiarrhythmic drug but with known
adverse effects. Prolonged oral administration of this drug has been implicated in numerous …

Muscle weakness, neuropathy, and transient rises in hepatic enzyme activity have been
reported with the use of the antiarrhythmic agent amiodarone. A 68 year old teetotaller with …