PMID: 16510914Mar 3, 2006Paper

Prevention of paroxysms of atrial fibrillation in old and senile patients

Georgian Medical News
N N Kipshidze, T G Zubiashvili

Abstract

It is known that the atrial fibrillation is a sorrow "privilege" of the senile groups of people. The aim of the given paper was to study the reasons of atrial fibrillation arising in old (60-74 years) and senile (75-89 years) patients and possibility of prevention paroxysms of atrial fibrillation and its complications with help of prolonged selective beta-blocker egilok retard pro daily doses 50-100 mg. The results which were received after the examination and treatment of 147 patients who were under stationary and dispensary treatment at the Research Institute of Experimental and Clinical therapy for 12 months. We have achieved full absence of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in 89.8% patients (132 patients). The use of egilok retard gives stable hypotensive effect in old and senile patients, provides the regression of the left ventricular hypertrophy with improvement of its parameters and diastolic function, which is especially important for the studied contingent of the patients.

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