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2. Amiodarone - Wikipedia

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   Amiodarone is an antiarrhythmic medication used to treat and prevent a number of types of cardiac dysrhythmias. [4] This includes ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, and wide complex tachycardia, atrial fibrillation, and paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia. [4]

3. Management of heart failure - Wikipedia

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   People with heart failure, also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), are educated to undertake various non-pharmacological measures to improve symptoms and prognosis. Such measures include: [2] Moderate physical activity, when symptoms are mild or moderate; or bed rest when symptoms are severe. In individuals with heart failure, increasing ...

4. Antiarrhythmic agent - Wikipedia

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   Compounds that prolong the action potential: matching the modern classification, with the key drug example being amiodarone, and a surgical example being thyroidectomy. This was not a defining characteristic in an earlier review by Charlier et al. (1968), [ 17 ] but was supported by experimental data presented by Vaughan Williams (1970).

5. Amrinone - Wikipedia

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   Congestive heart failure (CHF) is characterized by a reduction in ventricular performance and abnormalities in peripheral circulation and organs. [6] A reduced release of endothelium derived relaxing factor (EDRF) causes a decrease in the stimulation of guanylate cyclase, and cyclic GMP (cGMP) levels fall in vascular smooth muscle.

6. Heart failure - Wikipedia

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   Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome caused by an impairment in the heart's ability to fill with and pump blood. Although symptoms vary based on which side of the heart is affected, HF typically presents with shortness of breath , excessive fatigue , and bilateral leg swelling . [ 3 ]

7. Automatic tachycardia - Wikipedia

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   Automatic junctional tachycardia is treated clinically when there are symptoms, hemodynamic compromise, ventricular dysfunction, congestive heart failure, or evidence of hydrops in fetal cases. Amiodarone , beta-blockers , sotalol , flecainide , procainamide , digoxin , and anti-inflammatory agents such as steroids or even colchicine are ...