Amlodipine is contraindicated in patients with: hypersensitivity to dihydropyridine derivatives, amlodipine or to any of the excipients; severe hypotension; shock (including cardiogenic shock); obstruction of the outflow tract of the left ventricle (e.g., high grade aortic stenosis); haemodynamically unstable heart failure after acute myocardial infarction.