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Masakazu Hori1, Teruhiko Imamura1, Makiko Nakamura1
1The Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Toyama, Japan.
Abstract:
Titration of beta-blockers is a gold-standard therapy in patients with heart failure and a reduced ejection fraction but is sometimes challenging to administer, given symptomatic hypotension. Ivabradine is a recently introduced selective If channel inhibitor that purely reduces the heart rate. We encountered a patient with advanced heart failure in whom a beta-blocker could not be up-titrated given his symptomatic hypotension. Following the initiation of ivabradine, an increase in blood pressure due to heart rate optimization, probably via an improvement in the cardiac output, allowed for the further up-titration of carvedilol, followed by a successful clinical course. Ivabradine might be a novel therapeutic tool to facilitate the up-titration of beta-blockers in patients with heart failure and hypotension.
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