Heart Rate Reducing Therapy in Cardiac CT Using Ivabradine and Bisoprolol
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2016-01-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Out-patients scheduled for coronary computer tomographic angiography (CCTA) were screened
regarding their baseline heart rate. If heart rate was > 75, patients were pretreated with
10mg bisoprolol (group 1) or 10mg bisoprolol plus 7.5mg ivabradine (group 2) to reduce heart
rate one our before CCTA was performed.
Heart rate, additional use of i.v. bradycardic agents, motion artefacts, radiation dose and
drug tolerance was monitored.