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| Year : 2012 | Volume
: 44
| Issue : 2 | Page : 264-265 |
Phenytoin in treatment of amiodarone-induced Torsades de pointes
Saibal Mukhopadhyay, Praloy Chakraborty, Jamal Yusuf, Anuj Goyal, Sanjay Tyagi
Department of Cardiology, GB Pant Hospital, Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Praloy Chakraborty
Department of Cardiology, GB Pant Hospital, Delhi
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0253-7613.93866
Phenytoin, a class IB anti-arrhythmic agent, is considered the drug of choice for ventricular arrhythmias due to digoxin toxicity. We report successful reversion of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia secondary to amiodarone toxicity by phenytoin administration that was resistant to the conventional drugs (magnesium sulphate, lidocaine and atropine).
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