[Acute amiodarone poisoning. Description of a case]

A case of attempted suicide with 2600 mg amiodarone is reported. This overdose did not cause any clinical symptoms, change in heart rate, blood pressure or biochemical parameters. No ventricular arrhythmias were observed in ECG monitoring, but a considerable lengthening of the Q-T interval and T wave inversion in the precordial leads with transient disappearance of the R wave in leads V1 - V4, simulating an anteroseptal infarction, were recorded. This case underlines the possibility of giving larger loading doses of amiodarone than those generally used.