Treatment
IST has been treated both pharmacologically and invasively, with varying degrees of success.
Some types of medication tried by cardiologists and other physicians include: beta blockers, selective sinus node If channel inhibitors (ivabradine), calcium channel blockers and antiarrhythmic agents. Some SSRI drugs are also occasionally tried and also treatments more commonly used to treat postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome such as fludrocortisone. This approach is very much "trial-and-error". Patients with IST are often intolerant to beta blockers. A new selective sinus node inhibitor ivabradine is also being used to treat IST.
Invasive treatments include forms of catheter ablation such as sinus node modification (selective ablation of the sinus node), complete sinus node ablation (with associated implantation of a permanent artificial pacemaker) and AV node ablation in very resistant cases (creation of iatrogenic complete heart block, necessitating implantation of a permanent artificial pacemaker).
Read more about this topic: Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia
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