Article
Clinical implications of variable antiarrhythmic drug metabolism.
Pharmacogenetics - 1 Feb 1992
Buchert E, Woosley R L
Abstract excerpt
Due to their narrow therapeutic indices, antiarrhythmic drugs have a great potential for adverse outcome. This is amplified by extreme inter-individual variability in their disposition and their pharmacological actions. Genetically determined inter-individual differences in metabolism account for...
Topics
- Anti-Arrhythmia Agents
- Arrhythmias, Cardiac
- Cytochrome P-450 CYP2D6
- Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Humans
- Kidney
- Liver
- Mixed Function Oxygenases
