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Usefulness of programmed stimulation in predicting efficacy of propafenone in long-term antiarrhythmic therapy for paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.

Abstract
The electrophysiologic effects of intravenous (i.v.) and oral propafenone were evaluated in 14 patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and in 10 patients with atrioventricular (AV) nodal reentrant tachycardia. The effective refractory periods of the right atrium and the AV node increased after both preparations. In patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, i.v. propafenone blocked anterograde accessory pathway conduction in 2 patients and retrograde conduction in 1; during oral therapy, accessory pathway conduction block occurred in 2 additional patients. The mean cycle length of the supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) increased from 338 +/- 60 ms to 387 +/- 56 ms (p less than 0.05) after i.v. application, and from 336 +/- 65 ms to 367 +/- 65 ms (p less than 0.05) during oral propafenone. The shortest pacing interval maintaining a 1:1 AV conduction increased from 325 +/- 65 ms to 368 +/- 81 ms (p less than 0.05) after i.v. infusion, and from 333 +/- 57 ms to 369 +/- 75 ms (p less than 0.05) during oral therapy. There was no difference in the electrophysiologic effects between i.v. and oral propafenone. The induction of SVT was prevented by i.v. propafenone in 10 of 20 patients and in 4 additional patients with oral propafenone. During follow-up, 6 of 7 patients, whose SVT could not be initiated by electrophysiologic drug testing, remained free from recurrences, whereas 5 of 7 patients with inducible tachycardia had recurrences of SVT. Thus, in patients with SVT, propafenone prolonged accessory pathway and AV nodal conduction and had a beneficial effect on circus movement tachycardia.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
AuthorsM Manz, G Steinbeck, B Lüderitz
JournalThe American journal of cardiology (Am J Cardiol) Vol. 56 Issue 10 Pg. 593-7 (Oct 01 1985) ISSN: 0002-9149 [Print] United States
PMID4050693 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Anti-Arrhythmia Agents
  • Propiophenones
  • Propafenone
Topics
  • Administration, Oral
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Anti-Arrhythmia Agents (therapeutic use)
  • Atrioventricular Node (drug effects)
  • Child
  • Female
  • Heart Atria (drug effects)
  • Heart Conduction System (drug effects)
  • Heart Ventricles (drug effects)
  • Humans
  • Injections, Intravenous
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Propafenone
  • Propiophenones (therapeutic use)
  • Tachycardia, Paroxysmal (drug therapy, physiopathology)
  • Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome (drug therapy, physiopathology)

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