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Emergency Medicine Journal 2005;22:823; doi:10.1136/emj.2004.015982
© 2005 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the College of Emergency Medicine.

CASE REPORT

Atrial fibrillation after vardenafil therapy

H H Veloso and A A V de Paola

VOTCOR - Hospital da Venerável Ordem Terceira da Penitência, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr. Henrique Horta Veloso
VOTCOR – Hospital da Venerável Ordem Terceira da Penitência, Rua Conde de Bonfim 1033, Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brazil, ZIP: 20530-001; hhorta{at}cardiol.br

ABSTRACT

Vardenafil is a new oral phosphodiesterase inhibitor used for erectile dysfunction. We report a case admitted with a first-detected, symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in a healthy patient after self-medication with vardenafil.

Keywords: atrial fibrillation; cardiac arrhythmia; erectile dysfunction; phosphodiesterase inhibitor; vardenafil


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