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  • noun medicine A derivative of procaine that is used to treat cardiac arrhythmia

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  • Certain drugs, notably hydralazine, which is used to treat hypertension, and procainamide, which is used to treat irregular heartbeat, can trigger lupus attacks in people who have no history of the disease.

    THE LUPUS HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN ROBIN DIBNER 1994

  • Certain drugs, notably hydralazine, which is used to treat hypertension, and procainamide, which is used to treat irregular heartbeat, can trigger lupus attacks in people who have no history of the disease.

    THE LUPUS HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN ROBIN DIBNER 1994

  • Certain drugs, notably hydralazine, which is used to treat hypertension, and procainamide, which is used to treat irregular heartbeat, can trigger lupus attacks in people who have no history of the disease.

    THE LUPUS HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN ROBIN DIBNER 1994

  • (Vascor); heart medications such as procainamide (Procan SR, Procanbid, Pronestyl) and quinidine (Quinidex, Quinaglute); and HIV medications such as indinavir (Crixivan) and ritonavir (Norvir).

    Wii-volution 2010

  • Graves 'disease (hyperthyroidism), which caused atrial fibrillations and hand tremors (he was treated with digitalis and procainamide, both of which can affect brain function); insomnia (for which he took Halcion until 1992, after it had been banned in Great Britain); flu (which caused him to vomit on the prime minister of Japan and then faint); early glaucoma in the left eye; mild degenerative arthritis; actinic keratoses.

    Presidential Ailments 2005

  • Graves 'disease (hyperthyroidism), which caused atrial fibrillations and hand tremors (he was treated with digitalis and procainamide, both of which can affect brain function); insomnia (for which he took Halcion until 1992, after it had been banned in Great Britain); flu (which caused him to vomit on the prime minister of Japan and then faint); early glaucoma in the left eye; mild degenerative arthritis; actinic keratoses.

    Presidential Ailments 2005

  • Doctors will traditionally order any number of drugs from their pharmaceutical arsenal, including digoxin, the blood thinner warfarin, calcium channel blockers (like diltiazem or nifedipine), beta blockers (like propranolol, sotalol or metoprolol) or anti-arrhythmic drugs like propafenone, procainamide, disopyramide or amiodarone.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com R.Ph. Suzy Cohen 2011

  • Hydralazine and procainamide but will go away after the medication is stopped.

    EzineArticles 2010

  • Repetitive underlying at three nizoral schampoo types maintains safe headaches above the hard inhibitory lungs of most tests of candida; however, the progestin between in vitro titration of controversial neutrophils to procainamide and health or warfarin of phenothiazines in drugs has slowly pressurized established.

    Wii-volution 2010

  • Physicians should consider whether the benefits of androgen deprivation therapy outweigh the potential risks in patients with congenital long QT syndrome, electrolyte abnormalities, or congestive heart failure and in patients taking Class IA (e.g. quinidine, procainamide) or Class III (e.g. amiodarone, sotalol) antiarrhythmic medications.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

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