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Do you prescribe carvedilol in patients with heart failure and systemic right ventricle or single ventricle?

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Do you prescribe carvedilol in patients with heart failure and systemic right ventricle or single ventricle?

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Most of the experts who participated in the e-mail survey felt that carvedilol may not be useful in patients with systemic right ventricle (cTGA/post-atrial switch operation) or single ventricle. In the national consensus meeting, however, the use of carvedilol in patients with systemic right ventricle was considered as optional (level of evidence IIa). What is the dosing schedule? How do you titrate dose and how do you monitor therapy? All the respondents were in agreement with the standard guidelines for starting carvedilol therapy in a low dose and then titrating the dose once a week toward the maximum tolerated dose. Most experts preferred to start the treatment in the hospital, although the dose titration maybe performed in the clinic setting. Standard methods (symptoms, drug tolerance, echocardiographic parameters) should be used to monitor response to treatment. What is your personal experience regarding the efficacy of carvedilol in pediatric heart failure with respect to sympt

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