title: Carbamazepine induced atrial tachycardia with complete AV block.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Carbamazepine, a widely used antiepileptic drug that has been used for the treatment of both partial and generalized seizures, for trigeminal neuralgia, as a mood stabilizer and for treatment of neuropathic pain syndromes, may have negative chronotropic and dromotropic effects on the cardiac conduction system.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report a case of cardiac syncope due to atrial tachycardia combined with complete atrioventricular block as a consequence of carbamazepine administration for trigeminal neuralgia.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although sinus tachycardia is the most frequently observed cardiac side effect of carbamazepine, sinus and nodal bradycardia, atrioventricular block, premature ventricular contractions, ventricular tachycardia and junctional escape rhythms have been reported in patients due to carbamazepine toxicity.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Department, General Hospital of Halkidiki, Polygyros, Halkidiki, Greece.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koutsampasopoulos
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Department, General Hospital of Halkidiki, Polygyros, Halkidiki, Greece.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zotos
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Department, General Hospital of Halkidiki, Polygyros, Halkidiki, Greece.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Papamichalis
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Department, General Hospital of Halkidiki, Polygyros, Halkidiki, Greece.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Papaioannou
keywords: Carbamazepine; atrial tachycardia; complete atrioventricular block