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Article: Quinidine effective in treatment of electrical storm.
- Article from:
- Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
- Article date:
- August 21, 2004
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2004 AUG 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Quinidine can be effective in treatment of electrical storm in Brugado syndrome patients.
Physicians in Hong Kong described their experience treating an "adolescent with a malignant form of Brugado syndrome who presented with 15 episodes of ventricular fibrillation (VF) over 10 days, shortly after implantation of on implantable cardioverter defibrillator."
"Oral quinidine bisulphate at a dose of 1000 mg/day successfully suppressed the electrical storm and recurrence of VF over 18-month follow-up," reported N.S. Mok and coauthors at Princess Margaret Hospital. "It also normalized the ST-segment elevation in his ...