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Are you taking Amiodarone? Are you aware of the dangers of combining Amiodarone with certain foods, herbs, or alcohol? Drug-food-interactions are seldom discussed but can lead to undesirable side ...

Sudden death from cardiac causes remains a leading cause of death among patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Treatment with amiodarone or an implantable cardioverter–defibrillator (ICD) has ...

Antiarrhythmic drugs are used commonly in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest for shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia, but without proven survival benefit. In ...

The exact reason why amiodarone causes the bluish discoloration of the skin is unclear. Several different theories have been hypothesized, including a drug induced metabolism disorder (lipidosis), a ...

The three main complications of long-term amiodarone use are pulmonary toxicity, thyroid disease and liver toxicity. Pulmonary toxicity progresses slowly in the setting of amiodarone use, may be ...

January 21, 2005 — In mid-January, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals sent out "Dear Doctor" and "Dear Pharmacist" letters notifying recipients that a new medication ...

Amiodarone HCl 50mg/mL; soln for IV infusion after dilution; contains polysorbate 80. Amiodarone, a class III antiarrhythmic, possesses electrophysiologic characteristics of all four Vaughan Williams ...

May 15, 2009 (Boston, Massachusetts) — Early clinical data with budiodarone (ARYx Therapeutics, Fremont, CA), a novel antiarrhythmic medication that is a chemical analog of amiodarone, showed that the ...