What does AAD stand for?

Anti-Arrhythmic Drugs

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These results highlight the need for newer anti-arrhythmic drugs able to successfully achieve rhythm and rate control as well as decrease clinical events.

Sanofi-aventis Launches Major New Registry

Anti-arrhythmic drugs, for example, can take years to get right and have varying effects on people, he says.

Pharmacies switching patients' drugs to save money, some charge

Presently, anti-arrhythmic drugs are non-specific and may have significant side effects.

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Some patients may be treated with anti-arrhythmic drugs, while others are given pacemakers to correct a slow heart rhythm.

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This was the first such study comparing commonly-used anti-arrhythmic drugs.

Market Updates: Study reports fewer MIs but more deaths

Anti-arrhythmic drugs and defibrillators don't cure the disease, and the Maze procedure, an open-heart operation, cures but is very invasive and all these options are very costly.

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Patients typically treated with anti-arrhythmic drugs suffer from ventricular fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, or out-of-sync rhythms such as premature ventricular beats and atrial fibrillation.

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People who overdose on cocaine "should be treated with anti-arrhythmic drugs just as if they were heart attack patients," Hull asserts, "even if they don't appear to have symptoms.

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