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Newer antiarrhythmic drugs in children.

Abstract：

:Our experience with the use of five new antiarrhythmic drugs for treating life-threatening arrhythmias in children will be briefly reviewed. Prevention of recurrent episodes of atrial flutter with digoxin and local anesthetic antiarrhythmic drugs often is only moderately successful, benefiting 65% of patients. Amiodarone is particularly useful for those patients who cannot be controlled on this regimen. We caution that the heart rate be monitored carefully when therapy with amiodarone is initiated in patients likely to have sick sinus syndrome. We have found mexiletine useful for controlling significant ventricular arrhythmias in patients with congenital heart disease. Likewise, 79% (11 of 14) of patients with ventricular tachycardia treated with amiodarone were well controlled. However, the range of disease categories (congenital heart disease, myocarditis, cardiomyopathy) in which amiodarone is effective is much broader than for mexiletine. Although other investigators have used amiodarone successfully for controlling supraventricular tachycardia in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome or secondary to concealed accessory AV connections, we recommend surgical ablation. Propafenone has significantly improved our ability to control postoperative JET. Although JET is self-limited in duration and spontaneously remits, it frequently produces life-threatening hemodynamic compromise in the postoperative setting. Propafenone slows the ventricular rate into a range in which AV sequential pacing may be instituted. Generally, after 24 to 72 hours, the patient may be quickly weaned from propafenone. Chronic incessant supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is frequently associated with a dilated cardiomyopathy. The two most common mechanisms of incessant SVT are PJRT and AET. We have found encainide and ethmozine extremely effective in suppressing tachycardia episodes in PJRT and AET, respectively. Medical therapy has been associated with few side effects.

journal_name

Am Heart J

journal_title

American heart journal

authors

Moak JP,Smith RT,Garson A Jr

doi

10.1016/0002-8703(87)90027-5

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1987-01-01 00:00:00

pages

179-85

issue

eissn

0002-8703

issn

1097-6744

pii

0002-8703(87)90027-5

journal_volume

113

pub_type

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Newer antiarrhythmic drugs in children.