PMID: 2500470Jul 1, 1989Paper

Flecainide acetate for resistant arrhythmias in the young: efficacy and pharmacokinetics

Journal of the American College of Cardiology
J C PerryA Garson

Abstract

Drug efficacy and pharmacokinetics were assessed in 63 patients, aged 5 days to 30 years (mean 8 years), who received flecainide acetate for control of resistant arrhythmias. Doses of flecainide ranged from 59 to 225 mg/m2 body surface area per day (mean 141) in divided doses every 8 to 12 h and serum trough levels ranged from 0.10 to 0.99 micrograms/ml (mean 0.36). Flecainide controlled or partially controlled arrhythmia in 53 (84%) of the 63 patients: 7 of 7 patients who had the permanent form of junctional reciprocating tachycardia, 12 of 13 who had an atrial ectopic tachycardia, 10 of 10 who had ventricular tachycardia and 18 of 25 patients who had reentrant supraventricular tachycardia. Five of seven patients who had the latter arrhythmia were unsuccessfully treated with flecainide. They had Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and developed asymptomatic, incessant, slower orthodromic reciprocating tachycardia while receiving the drug. Transient blurred vision was reported in three patients and two patients had transient hyperactivity. No significant hemodynamic side effects were seen in any patient. Twenty-five patients underwent oral pharmacokinetic investigation. Young infants (less than 1 year of age) had a mean plasma elimi...Continue Reading

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