Treatment of ventricular arrhythmia derived from acute diarrhea in Labrador Retriever
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A 9 years old female Labrador retriever was shocked from severe acute diarrhea and paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia was observed from an electrocardiography. An initial treatment was performed with 2 mg/kg lidocaine bolus injection and continued with 25 microgram/kg/minute constant rate infusion. Atenolol was prescribed later but cannot control the arrhythmia despite increasing the dosages from 0.2 to 0.5 mg/kg per oral every 12 hours in 3 days. Replacing with amiodarone 10 mg/kg per oral every 12 hour was found to achieve in reversing the arrhythmia to normal sinus rhythm with a slightly increased of the alanine aminotransferase (ALT) enzyme during the course of treatment.
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