The good news is that dronedarone—a drug with multiple channel blocking effects that is chemically similar to amiodarone, but without the iodine moiety—has an excellent safety profile with no ...

Although amiodarone showed no survival benefit over placebo, ICD therapy significantly decreased mortality risk compared with placebo. In the first study, Daniel Mark and fellow SCD-HeFT ...

Liver failure and cirrhosis can occur, and it is thought that cumulative dose/long-term therapy increases this risk. Bradycardia is a known effect of amiodarone. When given intravenously ...