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Question:
Are there medicines to treat global hypokinesia?
submitted by Ven from Chennai on 2/12/2013
Answer:
by Texas Heart Institute cardiologist, Reynolds M. Delgado, MD
This sounds like heart failure. If so, there are multiple drugs to treat this, the most important of which are beta blockers, and in my experience, the best of those is carvedilol. I would suggest you talk with your doctor about this.
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Updated February 2013