AVETEN is contraindicated in patients with a known hypersensitivity to atenolol or any of the excipients.
AVETEN should not be administered in patients with bradycardia; cardiogenic shock; hypotension; metabolic acidosis; severe peripheral arterial circulatory disturbances; second or third degree heart block; sick sinus syndrome; untreated phaeochromocytoma; uncontrolled heart failure.