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Efficacy of Doppler echocardiography-guided ivabradine therapy
Toshihide Izumida1, Teruhiko Imamura2, Koichiro Kinugawa1
1Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, Toyama, 930-0194, Japan.
Background:
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the advantage of heart rate (HR) modulation using ivabradine referring Doppler echocardiography over the conventional ivabradine therapy without echocardiography guide in patients with systolic heart failure.
Methods:
From October 2020, our institute updated the protocol of ivabradine therapy, in which HR was optimized to minimize the overlap between the two left ventricular inflow waves using Doppler echocardiography (echo-guided group). The degree of cardiac reverse remodeling at 3-month follow-up was compared between the echo-guided group and the conventional ivabradine therapy group treated before October 2020.
Results:
A total of 28 patients (62 years old, 17 men) were included, and 18 patients were from echo-guided group. Left ventricular ejection fraction increased significantly in the echo-guided group (from 41% [28%, 49%] to 55% [37%, 66%], p = 0.007), whereas it remained unchanged in the conventional group (p = 0.333). Systolic blood pressure and the daily dose of carvedilol increased significantly only in the echo-guided group (p = 0.009 and p = 0.001, respectively).
Conclusions:
Among those with systolic heart failure, a Doppler echocardiography guide might be a promising therapeutic tool in modulating HR by ivabradine in facilitating reverse remodeling.
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