What is amiodarone used for? Amiodarone is commonly used to prevent and treat certain types of serious (and sometimes life-threatening) arrhythmias called ventricular fibrillation and ventricular ...

Amiodarone was discovered in 1961, but was not approved by the FDA until 1985. Although classified as a class III antiarrhythmic, amiodarone exhibits properties of class I, II and IV ...

It alerts doctors and patients about drug effects that may be dangerous. Amiodarone should only be used if you have a life threatening arrhythmia or irregular heart rate. This medication has the ...

He is referred to a cardiologist, who recommends rhythm control with oral amiodarone. The hemodynamic consequences of atrial fibrillation result primarily from the loss of atrioventricular ...

1). No previous chest radiographs were available for comparison. Amiodarone is a commonly prescribed antiarrhythmic benzofuran drug that has a variety of side effects that can involve the lung, liver, ...

Treatment with amiodarone or an implantable cardioverter–defibrillator (ICD) has been proposed to improve the prognosis in such patients. We randomly assigned 2521 patients with New York Heart ...

San Diego, CA - A substudy of the Atrial Fibrillation Follow-up Investigation of Rhythm Management (AFFIRM) trial indicates that amiodarone is the most effective drug in terms of keeping patients ...

Ortiz and colleagues [2] sought to compare the efficacy of amiodarone vs procainamide in patients with hemodynamically stable, regular WCT. The exact diagnosis (eg, VT vs supraventricular ...