Ivabradine(7.5mg)
Uses
Ivabradine is a used to treat symptomatic stable angina pectoris (chest pain), chronic heart failure. It can be used in combination with standard therapy, including beta-blocker therapy or when beta-blockers are contraindicated or not tolerated.
How it works
Ivabradine mainly works by reducing the heart rate by a few beats per minute which lowers the heart's need for oxygen especially in the situations when an angina attack is more likely to happen. In this way, it helps to control and reduce the number of angina attacks and further helps to improve the heart functioning and vital prognosis in affected patients.
Dosage
Always follow the instructions of doctor regarding the dosage and duration. The dosage and duration in adults.
Stable angina pectoris and chronic heart failure: One tablet (5 mg) twice daily (morning and evening). Maintenance dose 7.5 mg twice daily.
Common side effects
Visual problems such as halo, coloured flashes, multiple images (brief moments of increased brightness, most often caused by sudden changes in light intensity), decreased heart rate, irregular rapid contraction of the heart, uncontrolled blood pressure, headache, dizziness and blurred vision (cloudy vision), palpitations and cardiac extra beats, nausea, constipation, diarrhea, abdominal pain, spinning sensation (vertigo), difficulty breathing, muscle cramps, changes in laboratory parameters: high blood levels of uric acid, an excess of eosinophils (a type of white blood cell) and elevated creatinine in blood (a breakdown product of muscle), skin rash, angioedema ( swollen face, tongue or throat, difficulty in breathing or swallowing), low blood pressure, fainting, tiredness, weakness, double vision, impaired vision, rashes due to allergy.
Who should not take
Do not take ivabradine:
if you are allergic to ivabradine or any of the other ingredients of this medicine.
if your resting heart rate before treatment is too slow (below 70 beats per minute).
if you are suffering from cardiogenic shock or a heart attack (a heart condition treated in hospital).
if you suffer from a heart rhythm disorder.
if you are having a heart attack.
if you suffer from very low blood pressure.
if you suffer from unstable angina (a severe form in which chest pain occurs very frequently and with or without exertion).
if you have heart failure which has recently become worse.
if your heart beat is exclusively imposed by your pacemaker.
if you are a woman able to have children and not using reliable contraception.
if you are pregnant or trying to become pregnant.
if you are breast-feeding.
Ivabradine(7.5mg)
Uses
Ivabradine is a used to treat symptomatic stable angina pectoris (chest pain), chronic heart failure. It can be used in combination with standard therapy, including beta-blocker therapy or when beta-blockers are contraindicated or not tolerated.
How it works
Ivabradine mainly works by reducing the heart rate by a few beats per minute which lowers the heart's need for oxygen especially in the situations when an angina attack is more likely to happen. In this way, it helps to control and reduce the number of angina attacks and further helps to improve the heart functioning and vital prognosis in affected patients.
Dosage
Always follow the instructions of doctor regarding the dosage and duration. The dosage and duration in adults.
Stable angina pectoris and chronic heart failure: One tablet (5 mg) twice daily (morning and evening). Maintenance dose 7.5 mg twice daily.
Common side effects
Visual problems such as halo, coloured flashes, multiple images (brief moments of increased brightness, most often caused by sudden changes in light intensity), decreased heart rate, irregular rapid contraction of the heart, uncontrolled blood pressure, headache, dizziness and blurred vision (cloudy vision), palpitations and cardiac extra beats, nausea, constipation, diarrhea, abdominal pain, spinning sensation (vertigo), difficulty breathing, muscle cramps, changes in laboratory parameters: high blood levels of uric acid, an excess of eosinophils (a type of white blood cell) and elevated creatinine in blood (a breakdown product of muscle), skin rash, angioedema ( swollen face, tongue or throat, difficulty in breathing or swallowing), low blood pressure, fainting, tiredness, weakness, double vision, impaired vision, rashes due to allergy.
Who should not take
Do not take ivabradine:
if you are allergic to ivabradine or any of the other ingredients of this medicine.
if your resting heart rate before treatment is too slow (below 70 beats per minute).
if you are suffering from cardiogenic shock or a heart attack (a heart condition treated in hospital).
if you suffer from a heart rhythm disorder.
if you are having a heart attack.
if you suffer from very low blood pressure.
if you suffer from unstable angina (a severe form in which chest pain occurs very frequently and with or without exertion).
if you have heart failure which has recently become worse.
if your heart beat is exclusively imposed by your pacemaker.
if you are a woman able to have children and not using reliable contraception.
if you are pregnant or trying to become pregnant.
if you are breast-feeding.