Sick sinus syndrome cured by ... vitamin D?
Kessel L.
State Veterans Hospital, Rocky Hills, CT.
I have presented the case of a 77-year-old woman with SSS who was
treated unsuccessfully with antiarrhythmic drugs for 5 years. During
the fifth year, she developed chronic atrial fibrillation. Two years
later she started to take vitamin D for unrelated reasons, and first
regained regular sinus rhythm and later stopped having episodes of
atrial fibrillation. The patient has been now asymptomatic for over 2
years.
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PMID: 2379840 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Boron Elgar - 21 Jan 2005 01:12 GMT
>Sick sinus syndrome cured by ... vitamin D?
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>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2
379840&dopt=Abstract
You might want to reread this knowing that "regular sinus rhythm"
refers to the regular rhythm of the heart, not the nasal cavities.
Boron
ENTconsult - 24 Jan 2005 05:43 GMT
The term sick sinus here refers to cardiac rythm, not to the empty spaces in
your head.
Murray Grossan, M.D.
http://www.ent-consult.com