Documentation of acute rise in ventricular capture thresholds associated with flecainide acetate

  • Helio Fornieles-Pérez
  • , Matilde Montoya-García
  • , Paul A. Levine
  • , Oscar Sanz

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Abstract

Treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation with flecainide acetate resulted in a 4-fold increase in ventricular capture thresholds. The detailed time course of the threshold increase and decrease was documented using the AutoCapture algorithm and graphic summary.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)871-872
Number of pages2
JournalPacing and Clinical Electrophysiology
Volume25
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2002
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

Keywords

  • Autocapture
  • Capture thresholds
  • Class Ic antiarrhythmics
  • Flecainide
  • Long-term threshold record
  • Heart Ventricles/physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Anti-Arrhythmia Agents/adverse effects
  • Pacemaker, Artificial
  • Flecainide/adverse effects
  • Atrial Fibrillation/physiopathology
  • Aged
  • Equipment Failure

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