EFFICACY OF INTRAVENOUS PROPAFENONE IN TERMINATION OF ATRIAL-FLUTTER BY OVERDRIVE TRANSESOPHAGEAL PACING PREVIOUSLY INEFFECTIVE

Authors
DESTE D BERTAGLIA E MANTOVAN R ZANOCCO A FRANCESCHI M PASCOTTO P
Citation
D. Deste et al., EFFICACY OF INTRAVENOUS PROPAFENONE IN TERMINATION OF ATRIAL-FLUTTER BY OVERDRIVE TRANSESOPHAGEAL PACING PREVIOUSLY INEFFECTIVE, The American journal of cardiology, 79(4), 1997, pp. 500
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The American journal of cardiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029149
Volume
79
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9149(1997)79:4<500:EOIPIT>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
Fifty patients with symptomatic type I atrial flutter in whom terminat ion of the arrhythmia with transesophageal stimulation was unsuccessfu l were randomized to undergo a repeat procedure after intravenous prop afenone (n = 25) or placebo (n = 25). Immediate sinus rhythm recovery rate was 36% in the propafenone group and 4% in the placebo group (p = 0.005), indicating that intravenous propafenone increases the rate of successful transesophageal stimulation and can be used when a first a ttempt at conversion is ineffective.