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Ranolazine: a potential help for ectopics?

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Just watched a Sanjay Gupta video from 2018 where he talks about a possible new treatment for ectopics/arrhythmia using a drug called ranolazine which is currently used for treating angina.

youtube.com/watch?v=dX1JFZy...

Apparently it has shown real promise over the past few years:

sciencedirect.com/science/a...

but I can't find any recent news. Anyone heard anything on this or other hopeful sounding medications?

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Yes I tried it about 8 years ago and if anything it made matters worse. Eventually had two ablations to fix the AF and reduce other problems.

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