“…Therefore, termination of SVT via an antegrade block in the AV node will be unlikely. This contrasts the effects of digitalis, beta-blocking agents, and calcium antagonists which mainly affect the antegrade re-entrant limb both in AV intranodal tachycardia and AVRT (Wellens et al, 1975(Wellens et al, , 1977Wu et al, 1974). The effects of pirmenol resemble those of quinidine, procainamide, disopyramide, and the newer drugs, propafenone and flecainide (Brugada and Wellens, 1984;Garcia-Civera et al, 1984;Hellestrand et al, 1983, Wu et al, 1978b, 1981.…”