Carbamazepine-induced cardiac dysfunction. Characterization of two distinct clinical syndromes
| Autor: | Rolando Berger, Edward J. Kasarskis, Chien-Suu Kuo, Kevin R. Nelson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
| Předmět: |
business.industry
Atrioventricular conduction Sinus bradycardia medicine.medical_treatment Carbamazepine Middle Aged medicine.disease Cardiac dysfunction Electrocardiography Heart Block medicine.anatomical_structure Anticonvulsant Anesthesia Bradycardia Internal Medicine medicine Humans Female Patient group medicine.symptom business Atrioventricular block Sinus (anatomy) medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Internal Medicine. 152:186-191 |
| ISSN: | 0003-9926 |
| Popis: | A patient with sinus bradycardia and atrioventricular block, induced by carbamazepine, prompted an extensive literature review of all previously reported cases. From the analysis of these cases, two distinct forms of carbamazepine-associated cardiac dysfunction emerged. One patient group developed sinus tachycardias in the setting of a massive carbamazepine overdose. The second group consisted almost exclusively of elderly women who developed potentially life-threatening bradyarrhythmias or atrioventricular conduction delay, associated with either therapeutic or modestly elevated carbamazepine serum levels. Because carbamazepine is widely used in the treatment of many neurologic and psychiatric conditions, the recognition of the latter syndrome has important implications for the use of this drug in elderly patients. (Arch Intern Med.1992;152:186-191) |
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