Mexiletine therapy for ventricular tachycardia.
We have described a patient with sustained ventricular tachycardia that could not be controlled by any of the readily available oral antiarrhythmic agents. Because of the patient's response to intravenous lidocaine, she was treated with mexiletine, which has given excellent results.
D000368:Aged; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008801:Mexiletine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011437:Propylamines / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology
D011437:Propylamines; D008801:Mexiletine