Angina PHARM Flashcards
Angina
Goal of Treatment
- Increase oxygen delivery to heart
- Decrease oxygen demand of heart
- decrease afterload, preload
- decrease workload: HR, conduction, contractility
Supply = Demand of heart
Angina
Example Treatments
- Nitrates
- Nitroglycerine
- Isorbide mononitrate
- isorbide dinitrate - Calcium channel blockers
- dihydropyridines - Beta blockers
- OLOLs - Ranazoline
Types of Angina
- Stable angina
- angina of exertion
- CAD and ischemia due to atheroscelerosis, complicated lesion - Prinzmetal angina
- vasospastic angina
- due to vasospasm of the coronary arteries
- decrease oxygen delivery of heart
Treatment
Vasospastic angina
Patho: vasospasm of the coronary artery
Treatment: vasodilation of the coronary artery
- CCB
- long acting nitrates
*Beta blockers will not work (it is not increased demand)
Nitrates
Examples
Nitroglycerine
- rapid onset, shorter acting: SL, spray
- slow onset, long acting: transdermal, ointment
Isorbide mononitrate/dinitrate
- slow onset, intermediate/long acting: oral tablets
Types of Nitrates
Onset, duration
- rapid acting, short duration
Ex. Nitroglycerin
- SL, spray
- onset 1-3 minutes
- duration: 30-60 minutes
- repeat every 5 minutes 3x
- seek medical attention - slow acting, longer duration
Ex. nitroglycerin
- onset: 30-60 minutes
- transdermal (24 hours), ointment (12 hours)
Ex. isorbide mono/dinitrate
- oral
MOA
Nitrates
- prodrug
- uptake vascular smooth muscle
- conversion nitrate –> nitric oxide (bioactive)
- *conversion requires sulfylhydryl groups
- Vasodilation smooth muscle
- coronary arteries
- veins
- activaiton guanylyl cyclase -> cGMP -> dephosporylation myosin
- breaks the cross bridge
- relaxes muscle
- increase blood flow to heart (coronary artery vasodilation)
- decrease preload (vasodilation veins)
Nitrates
Pharmacokinetics
100 metabolized by first pass effect
do not crush, chew tablets
will be inactivated
1/2 life 5-7 minutes
SE/AE
Nitrates
- Orthostatic hypotension
- vasodilation
- blood pools in veins - HA, dizziness, flushing
- Rebound tachycardia
- can worsen angina
- drop in BP, activation baroreceptor reflex, rebound tachycardia
- heart works harder = worsen ischemia = MI
Drug interactions
Nitrates
Any hypotensive drug
Can worsen angina by causing rebound tachycardia and worsen ischemia to the heart
- beta blockers
- CCB
- Phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors (erectile dysfunction medication)
Nitrates
Tolerance
- Sulfylhydryl groups. used
- cannot convert Nitrate to NO
- Tolerance develops rapidly (cross tolerance)
- nitrate free period minimum 8 hours
- lower dosage
- withhold for period
Monitoring
Nitrates
BP, HR
severity, frequency of angina
triggers of angina
rebound tachycardia, worsening angina after administration
Contraindications
Nitrates
phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors
Erectile dysfunction medication
within 24 hours
severe hypotension
Ex. Sildenafil
Routes
Nitrates
sublingual
spray
transdermal
oral
IV
Prescriber considerations
- start low
- titrate up
- nitrate free period (tolerance develops, saturation sulfhydryl groups)
- withdrawal slowly - vasospastic rebound
Indications
Long acting nitrates
Heart failure
vasospastic angina
Beta blockers
Indications
- Angina exertion (stable angina)
*not for vasospastic angina
- Post MI
- HF , LVEF </= 40%
Beta blockers
MOA
- reduce HR, conduction, contractility
- decrease demand for oxygen
- used to treat CAD angina
block g-protein activation
prevention cAMP signal
blocks opening calcium channel
prevents depolarization
slow and fast action potentials in the heart
phase 0 and 4 , slow action potential AV and SA node
phase 2, fast action potential, contractility
Beta blockers
SE/AE
- heart blocks
- heart failure precipitated NY class Iii
- bradycardia
- impaired awareness hypoglycemia (IAH)
- hypoglycemia
- depression, insomnia, nightmares
- bronchoconstriction
- sexual dysfunction
Beta blockers
contraindications
- heart blocks (2/3 degree)
- heart failure class iv
- asthma
- caution: diabetes, anaphylaxis
- right sided heart failure