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Humans , Myocardial Ischemia/drug therapy , Coronary Disease/mortality , Coronary Disease/prevention & control , Coronary Disease/therapy , Lipid Metabolism , Myocardial Infarction/drug therapy , Trimetazidine/adverse effects , Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors/therapeutic use , Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors/therapeutic use , Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors/administration & dosage , Ivabradine/adverse effects , Cholesterol, LDL/metabolism , Anticoagulants/administration & dosage , Nitrates/adverse effectsABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION: Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) is associated with a worse outcome. Heart rate (HR) is related to outcome in HFrEF. Ivabradine selectively inhibits If (funny) channels in a concentration-dependent manner reducing HR. AREAS COVERED: The effects of ivabradine in HF were reviewed. The SHIFT trial results indicated that ivabradine improves chronic HFrEF outcomes, whereas published data suggest that amiodarone, digoxin, or verapamil may not be safe or the safety is controversial in HFrEF patients. In the CONSTATHE-DHF study, ivabradine reduced HR and improved left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction, LV diastolic functions, and right ventricle function in acute decompensated HF (ADHF). In chagasic patients, ivabradine reduced HR and a trend toward reduction in all-cause death was observed with ivabradine (p = 0.07). In children with HFrEF, ivabradine increased NYHA functional class. The most common side effects with ivabradine are bradycardia, atrial fibrillation, and phosphenes. Ivabradine was approved for HFrEF treatment by the EMA and FDA and seems to be cost-effective in HFrEF treatment. Ivabradine is indicated for HFrEF by the ESC HF Guidelines (IIa) and by the 2016 ACC/AHA/HFSA Guidelines (IIa-B-R). EXPERT OPINION: Published evidences demonstrate that ivabradine improves the outcome of chronic HFrEF and it seems to have a promising role in ADHF.
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Cardiovascular Agents/administration & dosage , Heart Failure/drug therapy , Ivabradine/administration & dosage , Animals , Cardiovascular Agents/adverse effects , Cardiovascular Agents/pharmacology , Dose-Response Relationship, Drug , Heart Failure/physiopathology , Heart Rate/drug effects , Humans , Ivabradine/adverse effects , Ivabradine/pharmacology , Practice Guidelines as Topic , Stroke Volume/drug effects , Ventricular Function, Left/drug effectsABSTRACT
Background Ivabradine is currently indicated to lower heart rate in Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF) patients. However its effect apart from beta-blockers is not clear. Aim of the review To study the additional effect of ivabradine, apart from the effect of beta-blockers, on cardiovascular death, all-cause mortality, hospitalization due to HF and heart rate in HFrEF population. Method Electronic searches were conducted up to June 2016 to include randomized controlled trials where ivabradine was compared to a control group. Relative risks RRs and their 95% confidence intervals (CI 95%) were pooled and the random and fixed effect were used to summarize the results according to heterogeneity levels. Heterogeneity among studies was measured by the I-squared statistic Results Of 1790 studies, seven met the inclusion criteria for the systematic review and meta-analysis. The population consisted of 17,747 patients. Risk of bias was generally high for beta-blocker doses lower than recommended. Interventions lasted 1.5-22.9 months and pooled relative risks RR (95%) for all-cause mortality, cardiovascular death and hospitalization for HF were 0.98 (0.90-1.06); 0.99 (0.91-1.08); and 0.87 (0.68-1.12) respectively. Heart rate (CI 95%) decreased by 8.7 (6.37-11.03) beats per minute with ivabradine compared to the control group. Subgroup analysis by beta-blocker dose showed that for patients on recommended treatment (at least 50% of the beta-blocker target dose), heart rate (CI 95%) decreased by 4.70 (3.67-5.73), whereas for patients not on recommended treatment or with unreported dose, heart rate decreased by 8.60 (8.13-9.08). Conclusion Ivabradine significantly reduced heart rate and its additional effect on heart rate appears to be inversely correlated with the dose of beta-blocker. It showed no significant effect for all-cause mortality, cardiovascular death and hospitalization due to HF. Unreported beta-blocker doses and beta-blocker doses lower than recommended limited the conclusions.