RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Oral xamoterol in patients with sinoatrial disease.
JF British Heart Journal
JO Heart
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Cardiovascular Society
SP 469
OP 472
DO 10.1136/hrt.56.5.469
VO 56
IS 5
A1 Tseu, F L
A1 Morley, C A
A1 Mackintosh, A F
YR 1986
UL http://heart.bmj.com/content/56/5/469.abstract
AB Twelve patients with sinoatrial disease were assessed while on oral xamoterol (200 mg twice daily) and placebo by a double blind randomised, crossover trial that lasted four weeks. Nine of the patients had been referred for permanent pacing. Xamoterol produced favourable changes in the number of pauses and the mean heart rate in six patients. Another patient deteriorated on xamoterol. Six patients were started on long term xamoterol. Xamoterol produces short term electrocardiographic improvement in some, but not all, patients with symptomatic sinoatrial disease.