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2. List of cardiac pharmaceutical agents - Wikipedia

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   The following are medications commonly prescribed cardiac pharmaceutical agents. The specificity of the following medications is highly variable, and often are not particularly specific to a given class. As such, they are listed as are commonly accepted.

3. Antiarrhythmic agent - Wikipedia

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   Antiarrhythmic agents, also known as cardiac dysrhythmia medications, are a class of drugs that are used to suppress abnormally fast rhythms (tachycardias), such as atrial fibrillation, supraventricular tachycardia and ventricular tachycardia. Many attempts have been made to classify antiarrhythmic agents.

4. Atrial fibrillation - Wikipedia

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   Atrial fibrillation is associated with an increased risk of heart failure, dementia, and stroke. [3] [12] It is a type of supraventricular tachycardia. [14] Atrial fibrillation frequently results from bursts of tachycardia that originate in muscle bundles extending from the atrium to the pulmonary veins. [15]

5. Dofetilide - Wikipedia

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   It has clinical advantages over other class III antiarrhythmics in chemical cardioversion of atrial fibrillation, and maintenance of sinus rhythm, and does not have the pulmonary or hepatotoxicity of amiodarone, however atrial fibrillation is not generally considered life-threatening, and dofetilide causes an increased rate of potentially life ...

6. Digoxin - Wikipedia

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   Digoxin is in the cardiac glycoside family of medications. [4] It was first isolated in 1930 from the foxglove plant, Digitalis lanata. [7] [8] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. [9] In 2021, it was the 241st most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 1 million prescriptions. [10 ...

7. Potassium channel blocker - Wikipedia

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   Reverse use dependent drugs that slow heart rate (such as quinidine) can be less effective at high heart rates. [11] The refractoriness of the ventricular myocyte increases at lower heart rates . [ citation needed ] This increases the susceptibility of the myocardium to early Afterdepolarizations (EADs) at low heart rates.

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9. Direct factor Xa inhibitors - Wikipedia

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   Direct factor Xa inhibitors (xabans) are anticoagulants (blood thinning drugs), used to both treat and prevent blood clots in veins, and prevent stroke and embolism in people with atrial fibrillation (AF). [2] [3]