Procoralan is a heart medicine used to treat the symptoms of long\-term stable angina (pains to the chest, jaw and back, brought on by physical effort) in adults with coronary artery disease (disease of the heart caused by the obstruction of the blood vessels that supply blood to the heart muscle).The medicine is used in patients who have a normal heart rhythm, and whose heart rate is at least 70 beats per minute. It is used in those who cannot be treated with beta blockers (another type of medicine to treat angina) or in combination with a beta blocker in patients whose disease is not controlled by beta blockers alone. Procoralan is also used in patients with long\-term heart failure (when the heart cannot pump enough blood to the rest of the body) who have a normal heart rhythm and whose heart rate is at least 75 beats per minute. It is used in combination with standard therapy including beta blockers, or in patients who cannot be treated with beta blockers. Procoralan contains the active substance ivabradine.
Therapeutic Indication
**Symptomatic treatment of chronic stable angina pectoris** Ivabradine is indicated for the symptomatic treatment of chronic stable angina pectoris in coronary artery disease adults with normal sinus rhythm and heart rate ? 70 bpm. Ivabradine is indicated : * in adults unable to tolerate or with a contraindication to the use of beta\-blockers * or in combination with beta\-blockers in patients inadequately controlled with an optimal beta\-blocker dose. **Treatment of chronic heart failure** Ivabradine is indicated in chronic heart failure NYHA II to IV class with systolic dysfunction, in patients in sinus rhythm and whose heart rate is ? 75 bpm, in combination with standard therapy including beta\-blocker therapy or when beta\-blocker therapy is contraindicated or not tolerated.
Therapeutic Area (MeSH)
ATC Code
C01EB17
ATC Item
N/A
Pharmacotherapeutic Group
Cardiac therapy
Active Substance (Summary)
INN / Common Names
EMA Name
Procoralan
Medicine Name
Procoralan
Aliases
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