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Pharmacology of the antiarrhythmic drugs

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Cardiac therapy

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Antiarrhythmic drugs are compounds which influence the electrical activity of the heart and may thereby alter or abolish the abnormalities in impulse initiation and conduction which cause cardiac arrhythmias. Until the early 1960s only two drugs, quinidine and procainamide, were used widely as antiarrhythmics in the United States. During the past 15 years there has been a continuous growth in the number of agents available. In this chapter we discuss the electrophysiological bases for the action of antiarrhythmic drugs and review their pharmacological properties. The discussion will include all antiarrhythmic drugs currently approved for clinical use in the United States, as well as some of the promising agents undergoing clinical trials.

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