In the US, dogs failed to predict heart problems caused by the cardiovascular drugs encainide and flecainide which led to an estimated 3,000 deaths. |
In patients with good left ventricular function and no coronary artery disease, flecainide and propafenone can be used. |
Pathologist Dr David Scoones said post-mortem results showed the cause of death to be Flecainide toxicity. |
In our center, the use of oral propafenone or flecainide is fairly common. |
The cardiology team started him on digoxin, and switched flecainide to disopyramide. |
Anti-arrhythmic drugs, such as digoxin, beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, amiodarone, flecainide and propafenone. |