USEFULNESS OF THE RESPONSE TO INTRAVENOUS PROCAINAMIDE DURING ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC STUDY IN PREDICTING THE RESPONSE TO ORAL QUINIDINE IN PATIENTS WITH INDUCIBLE SUSTAINED MONOMORPHIC VENTRICULAR-TACHYCARDIA ASSOCIATED WITH CORONARY-ARTERY DISEASE
La. Pires et al., USEFULNESS OF THE RESPONSE TO INTRAVENOUS PROCAINAMIDE DURING ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC STUDY IN PREDICTING THE RESPONSE TO ORAL QUINIDINE IN PATIENTS WITH INDUCIBLE SUSTAINED MONOMORPHIC VENTRICULAR-TACHYCARDIA ASSOCIATED WITH CORONARY-ARTERY DISEASE, The American journal of cardiology, 72(12), 1993, pp. 908-910
The response to intravenous procainamide (15 to 20 mg/kg) and to oral
quinidine 324 to 648 mg every 8 hours for 3 to 5 days was prospectivel
y studied in 50 consecutive patients (43 men and 7 women, aged 38 to 8
3 years old [mean 64 +/- 11]) with coronary artery disease and baselin
e-inducible sustained monomorphic VT. Mean procainamide and trough qui
nidine serum levels were 10.5 +/- 2.6 and 2.6 +/- 0.8 mug/ml, respecti
vely. Mean left ventricular ejection fraction was 37 +/-12%. Sustained
monomorphic VT was suppressed by intravenous procainamide in 18 patie
nts (36%); 8 of these patients (44%) also had suppression with oral qu
inidine, but 10 (56%) did not. Of the 32 patients (64%) who continued
to have inducibility with intravenous procainamide, 12 (38%) responded
to oral quinidine and 22 (62%) did not. The overall concordant respon
se rate to intravenous procainamide and oral quinidine was 56% (28 of
50 patients). It is concluded that the response (i.e., the presence or
absence of inducible sustained monomorphic VT) to intravenous procain
amide does not adequately predict the response to oral quinidine in pa
tients with coronary artery disease and sustained monomorphic VT.