title: [Calcium channel inhibitors and ventricular filling].
abstract: Abnormalities of ventricular relaxation and compliance often precede changes in systolic function in ischemic and hypertrophic or hypertensive heart disease. Several studies using non-invasive methods have confirmed the beneficial effects of calcium channel blockers on left ventricular diastolic function in ischemic and primary hypertrophic cardiomyopathies. Their usefulness remains controversial in secondary cardiac hypertrophy such as in hypertensive heart disease. Improved left ventricular isovolumic relaxation and filling results more from the coronary and peripheral vasodilatory effects of calcium channel blockers than from a direct action on the cardiac muscle.
authors.affiliation: Service de cardiologie clinique et expérimentale, CHU Rangueil, Toulouse.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dorobantu
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Bounhoure
mesh_terms: D002121:Calcium Channel Blockers / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000187:drug effects*; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D016276:Ventricular Function / Q000187:drug effects*
chemical_list: D002121:Calcium Channel Blockers
vernacular_title: Inhibiteurs calciques et remplissage ventriculaire.