Manufacturers: Eli lilly and co, Warner chilcott div warner lambert co +35 more
Quinidine is a medication used to restore normal sinus rhythm, treat atrial fibrillation and flutter, and treat ventricular arrhythmias.
Quinidine is a medication used to restore normal sinus rhythm, treat atrial fibrillation and flutter, and treat ventricular arrhythmias.
Quinidine has a complex electrophysiological profile that has not been fully elucidated. The antiarrhythmic actions of this drug are mediated through effects on sodium channels in Purkinje fibers. Quinidine blocks the rapid sodium channel (I), decreasing the phase zero of rapid depolarization of the action potential. Quinidine also reduces repolarizing K currents (I, I), the inward rectifier potassium current (I), and the transient outward potassium current I, as well as the L-type calcium current I and the late I inward current. The reduction of these currents leads to the prolongation of the action potential duration. By shortening the plateau but prolonging late depolarization, quinidine facilitates the formation of early afterdepolarisation (EAD). Additionally, in patients with malaria, quinidine acts primarily as an intra-erythrocytic schizonticide, and is gametocidal to Plasmodium vivax and P. malariae, but not to P. falciparum.
Quinidine is indicated for the management and prophylactic therapy of atrial fibrillation/flutter, as well as the suppression of recurrent documented ventricular arrhythmias. It is also used in the treatment of Brugada syndrome, short QT syndrome and idiopathic ventricular fibrillation..
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