HealthDay News — In a report published online July 16 in the Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, a case of survival after acute liver failure secondary to amiodarone administration is ...

Amiodarone HCl 50mg/mL; soln for IV infusion after dilution; contains polysorbate 80. Amiodarone, a class III antiarrhythmic, possesses electrophysiologic characteristics of all four Vaughan Williams ...

Ortiz and colleagues [2] sought to compare the efficacy of amiodarone vs procainamide in patients with hemodynamically stable, regular WCT. The exact diagnosis (eg, VT vs supraventricular tachycardia ...

The three main complications of long-term amiodarone use are pulmonary toxicity, thyroid disease and liver toxicity. Pulmonary toxicity progresses slowly in the setting of amiodarone use, may be ...

What is amiodarone used for? Amiodarone is commonly used to prevent and treat certain types of serious (and sometimes life-threatening) arrhythmias called ventricular fibrillation and ventricular ...

Why does intravenous infusion of amiodarone cause significant hypotension? Intravenous amiodarone infusion causes significant arterial vasodilation and hypotension not seen with the oral formulation.

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