PMID: 2500238Feb 1, 1989Paper

Effects of intravenous flecainide in the treatment of paroxysmal or recent-onset atrial fibrillations

Cardiologia : bollettino della Società italiana di cardiologia
R BolognesiO Visioli

Abstract

Intravenous flecainide (2 mg/Kg for 15 min) was used in 30 patients (18 men and 12 women aged 23 to 85 years: mean 62) with recent or paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: 5 patients returned to sinus rhythm during flecainide administration while other 23 patients did it not later than 2 hours. Treatment with intravenous flecainide proved to be safe without significant side effects. Further investigations are required to define the effects of flecainide in the treatment of atrial fibrillation; at the moment it must be admitted that flecainide acetate is a useful, safe, fast acting drug for the conversion of paroxysmal or recent atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm.

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