• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Ivabradine as an Alternative Therapeutic Trial in the Therapy of Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia
  • Beteiligte: Schulze, Volker; Steiner, Stefan; Hennersdorf, Marcus; Strauer, Bodo-Eckehard
  • Erschienen: S. Karger AG, 2008
  • Erschienen in: Cardiology
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1159/000111931
  • ISSN: 0008-6312; 1421-9751
  • Schlagwörter: Pharmacology (medical) ; Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>Inappropriate sinus tachycardia is a disease which is relatively rarely found and sometimes difficult to treat. Up to now it has been mostly treated with a β-blocker or verapamil. If this did not work sinus node modulation was considered. Since the relatively new selective IF-stream blocker ivabradine has been approved for the therapy of chronic stable angina pectoris, a new therapeutic option is available. As ivabradine is well tolerated and only few side effects are known, it may become a new therapeutic step between medication and the invasive sinus node modulation. We report the case of a young female patient with inappropriate sinus tachycardia where a sustained therapeutic success was achieved with ivabradine medication as an alternative therapeutic trial after various ineffective medications.</jats:p>