title: [Acute coronary vasomotor effects of nifedipine and its therapeutic efficacy in syndrome X].
abstract: In 18 patients (12 females) presenting with effort-induced chest pain and normal coronary angiograms (syndrome X), 10 mg sublingual nifedipine increased the lumen of major coronary arteries (quantitative angiography) by 13% +/- 10 (p less than 0.01), coronary blood flow (thermodilution) by 23% +/- 26 (p less than 0.05), norepinephrine plasma concentration by 60% +/- 42 (p less than 0.01), and reduced the global ST segment shift during the effort stress test from 8.8 +/- 4.1 to 7 +/- 6.8 mm (p less than 0.03) at comparable maximal workload and at unchanged double product. There was a correlation (positive) of changes in flow with changes in coronary lumen diameter (r = 0.65, p less than 0.01), with ST segment response to exercise (r = 0.83, p less than 0.001), and with (inverse) norepinephrine plasma concentration (r = -0.70, p less than 0.01); no correlation was found between ST segment response and changes in arterial lumen diameter. In a few cases nifedipine did not improve or even worsened the response to exercise; in them coronary flow was unchanged or reduced and norepinephrine plasma levels were modestly or greatly increased, respectively. After 4-week treatment with nifedipine (10-20 mg 4 times daily), the effort ST segment shift was further diminished to 4.4 +/- 3.5 mm (p less than 0.03) despite a slightly increased double product. Plasma norepinephrine values, as compared to those following acute nifedipine, were reduced by 40% in patients with further improvement and unchanged in patients whose exercise performance did not vary.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Cardiologia, Università degli Studi, Milano.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Montorsi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cozzi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Loaldi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fabbiocchi
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Annoni
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: De Cesare
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Polese
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Guazzi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy*; D003326:Coronary Circulation / Q000187:drug effects*; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000187:drug effects*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009543:Nifedipine / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000097:blood; D013577:Syndrome; D014664:Vasodilation / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D009543:Nifedipine; D009638:Norepinephrine
vernacular_title: Effetti vasomotori coronarici acuti della nifedipina ed efficacia terapeutica nella sindrome X.