What Are The Side Effects Of Medical Cardioversion Medication?
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Dear XXXX
Greetings from health care magic!!! I am Dr Thakker and shall be answering your question.
Medical cardioversion is a mode of restoring the heart rhythm back to normal. The medicines used for that purpose act on the sodium channels/calcium channels in the heart as well as the pacemaker. They have side effects depending of the drug used.
I would like you to tell me which drug was used in your case, so that I can inform you about those side effects.
Side effects of commonly used agents like amiodarone, metoprolol, diltiazem, ibutilide, flecainide etc are:
Rash, arrhhythima common for all agents
Thyroid dysfunction, lung fibrosis, gum hypertrophy---amiodarone
Bradycardia which is slow heart rate--beta blockers like esmolol, metoprolol
Leg swelling, constipation, fatigue--calcium channel blockers
Sudden cardiac death---flecainide, ecainide
I hope this helps you out. If you have any more questions, please do not hesitate to write back to me.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Thakker.