Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy of Atrial Fibrillation: Focus on New Agents

Author:

Dorian Paul1

Affiliation:

1. St. Michael's Hospital, Cardiology Division, 30 Bond Street 7051 Q 7-D81 Queen Wing, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W8, Canada; dorianp@smh.toronto.on.ca

Abstract

The precise mechanisms of clinical effect of antiarrhythmic agents and the ideal “molecular targets” against arrhythmias, in particular atrial fibrillation, are poorly understood. Current antiarrhythmic drug development, particularly for drugs expected to be active against atrial fibrillation, has focused on drugs with multiple ionic mechanisms of action, in particular on those that block multiple potassium channels. Investigation of antiarrhythmic agents is complicated by the diversity of animal-disease models studied, by the potential multiple mechanisms of arrhythmias, and by the incompletely understood relationships between risks and benefits of antiarrhythmic drug therapy. Furthermore, rhythm control strategies in large groups of patients with atrial fibrillation have failed to show substantial clinical benefit. Nevertheless, drugs that block multiple potassium channels and appear to have relatively little organ toxicity, such as tedisamil, may represent an important new avenue in the therapeutic approach to highly symptomatic arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Pharmacology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Pharmacology

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