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Limited Role of Intravenous Propafenone Hydrochloride in the Treatment of Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia: Electrophysiologic Effects and Results of Programmed Ventricular Stimulation

Limited Role of Intravenous Propafenone Hydrochloride in the Treatment of Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia: Electrophysiologic Effects and Results of Programmed Ventricular Stimulation

J U Doherty, H L Waxman, M G Kienzle, D M Cassidy, F E Marchlinski, A E Buxton, M E Josephson

J Am Coll Cardiol. 1984 Aug;4(2):378-81.

PMID: 6736479

Abstract:

The electrophysiologic effects and response to programmed ventricular stimulation of intravenous propafenone, an experimental antiarrhythmic agent, were studied in a group of 14 patients with both clinical and induced sustained ventricular tachycardia. Twelve of the 14 patients had not responded to conventional antiarrhythmic drug therapy. Propafenone had no significant effect on sinus cycle length (836 +/- 170 ms before and 750 +/- 124 ms after propafenone), P wave duration (108 +/- 24 ms before and 106 +/- 23 ms after propafenone) or PR interval (181 +/- 45 ms before and 194 +/- 53 ms after propafenone). QRS duration and ventricular effective refractory periods increased significantly (109 +/- 20 to 130 +/- 21 ms and 235 +/- 24 to 256 +/- 19 ms, respectively). Ventricular tachycardia remained inducible or occurred spontaneously in 13 of 14 patients after propafenone administration. Neither mode of initiation nor mode of termination of ventricular tachycardia was predictably altered. Additional forms of ventricular tachycardia were seen in six patients. Cycle length of ventricular tachycardia was 303 +/- 73 ms before and 346 +/- 143 ms after propafenone (p = NS). In conclusion, intravenous propafenone does not significantly affect sinus rate, intraatrial conduction or atrioventricular conduction. Ventricular refractoriness and intraventricular conduction are prolonged. The mode of initiation, mode of termination and ventricular tachycardia cycle length are not predictably altered, but ventricular tachycardia occasionally occurs spontaneously after propafenone. Intravenous propafenone rarely prevents induction of ventricular tachycardia in patients with sustained ventricular tachycardia refractory to conventional antiarrhythmic agents.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP34183227-A	Propafenone hydrochloride		34183-22-7	Price

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