Acute low back pain during intravenous administration of amiodarone: a report of two cases
| Autor: | Pavlos Karanikis, Konstantinos Siogas, Vasiliki Dimitroula, Evaggelos Kountouris, Eugenia Pappa, Panagiotis Korantzopoulos |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Heart disease Side effect medicine.medical_treatment Low Back Pain/chemically induced Amiodarone Cardioversion Medicine Humans Sinus rhythm Infusions Intravenous Acute low back pain Aged Aged 80 and over business.industry Anti-Arrhythmia Agents/administration & dosage/*adverse effects Atrial fibrillation medicine.disease Amiodarone/administration & dosage/*adverse effects Low back pain Anesthesia Female medicine.symptom Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business medicine.drug |
| Popis: | Amiodarone represents an effective antiarrhythmic drug for cardioversion of recent-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) and maintenance of sinus rhythm. We briefly describe two patients suffering from recent-onset atrial fibrillation, who experienced an acute devastating low back pain a few minutes after initiation of intravenous amiodarone loading. Notably, this side effect has not been ever reported in the medical literature. Clinicians should be aware of this reaction since prompt termination of parenteral administration leads to complete resolution. Int J Cardiol |
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