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Published 12 August 2026

Ibogaine and the Heart

Cardiac effects are the reason ibogaine is administered under monitoring. What the literature describes, and what screening is meant to catch.

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What is described

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Screening

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Monitoring

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What we don’t know

What this page will not be able to say, and why. The tone exists so that an absence of evidence reads as an absence of evidence.

Common questions

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Sources

2 sources · How we source

  1. PubMed: ibogaine literature

    Primary source · National Library of Medicine

  2. PubMed Central: open-access reports

    Primary source · PMC

Portrait of Hélène Mercier

Hélène Mercier

Medically reviewed 12 August 2026

About

Cardiologist. Reviews the pages on QT prolongation, pre-treatment screening and contraindications, the questions on which ibogaine kills people. Insists that the cardiac section state the risk in the proportion the literature gives it, not the proportion that reads well.

  • Cardiology
  • QT prolongation
  • Pre-treatment screening

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