Pure heart rate reduction: further perspectives in heart failure

Optimized Treatment and Heart Rate Reduction in Chronic Heart Failure

BACKGROUND Heart failure (HF) is a syndrome that leads to poor outcome in advanced forms. The neurohormonal blockade modifies this natural history; however, it is often suboptimal. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to assess at what percentage cardiologists used to treating HF can prescribe target doses of drugs of proven efficacy. METHODS A total of 104 outpatients with systolic dysfuncti...

Benefit of Heart Rate Reduction in Heart Failure

Epidemiological studies have suggested that life expectancy is inversely related to resting heart rate and that the risks of development of heart failure and sudden cardiac death strongly increase with higher resting heart rates [1]. After myocardial infarction, the reduction in mortality with β-blocker treatment was correlated with the extent of heart rate reduction, and in patients with heart...

Ivabradine, the pure heart rate-lowering drug, shown to reduce morbidity and mortality in heart failure

Effect of Exercise Training on Heart Rate Variability in Patients with Heart Failure After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Background: This study aims to evaluate the effect of exercise training on heart rate variability (HRV) and to determine the correlation between parameters of HRV and the ejection fraction in patients with heart failure after percutaneous coronary intervention.Material and Methods: Fifty patients with left ventricular ejection fraction ≤ 40% undergone percutaneous coronary intervention were r...

PrognostIc rolE of hEart ratE rEdUctIon UndEr carvEdIlol thEraPy In chronIc hEart faIlUrE

Received for publication: Jun. 04, 2007. Revised: Sep. 29, 2007. rEZUMat Department of Cardiology, Municipal Hospital, Timisoara