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Emanuele Romeo1, Nicola Grimaldi, Berardo Sarubbi, Michele D'Alto, Giuseppe Santarpia, Giancarlo Scognamiglio, Maria Giovanna Russo, Raffaele Calabrò.
Abstract
We report the case of a 16-year-old boy with cardiomyopathy induced by inappropriate sinus tachycardia (IST). The patient was resistant to treatment with conventional rate-decreasing medications. Therapy with the selective sinus node I(f) current inhibitor ivabradine was started. After 3 months of ivabradine therapy, an improvement in ejection fraction and a successful decrease in heart rate were observed. No side effects occurred. We suggest that ivabradine, currently used to treat stable angina, could be considered as a second-line treatment in patients with symptomatic and refractory IST.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21479666 DOI: 10.1007/s00246-011-9964-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Pediatr Cardiol ISSN: 0172-0643 Impact factor: 1.655