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Acute Loss of Capture Due to Flecainide Acetate
Author(s) -
ANTONELLI DANTE,
FREEDBERG NAHUM A.,
ROSENFELD TIBERIO
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2001.01170.x
Subject(s) - medicine , flecainide , intensive care medicine , anesthesia , atrial fibrillation
ANTONELLI, D., et al. : Acute Loss of Capture Due to Flecainide Acetate. Antiarrhythmic drugs increase pacing threshold, but this is rarely of clinical significance. Administration of flecainide acetate in a 75‐year‐old woman with an implanted AAIR pacemaker because of sick sinus syndrome caused an abrupt rise of pacing threshold and failure of pacing. Pacing threshold returned to the normal value a few days after flecainide treatment was stopped.