Symptomatic sick sinus syndrome due to guanethidine. Case report.
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Symptomatic sick sinus syndrome due to guanethidine. Case report.
A patient is described who developed symptomatic sinus bradycardia as low as 20 beats per minute and sinus arrest of up to 4.4 seconds while receiving guanethidine, 75 mg daily. The bradycardia resolved following discontinuation of the drug and reappeared upon challenge with it. Intrinsic disease of the sinoatrial and atrioventricular nodes was evidenced 3 weeks following discontinuation of the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hypertension
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0194-911X,1524-4563
DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.1.5.543