title: [Orally active vasodilators in the management of chronic treatment-resistant cardiac failure (author's transl)].
abstract: The acute haemodynamic effects of 40 mg isosorbide dinitrate (10 subjects), 4 mg prazosin (20 subjects) and 50 mg dihydralazine (8 subjects) were compared in 24 patients with the clinical picture of chronic therapy-resistant cardiac failure (NY Heart Association stages III-IV). There was a fall in left-ventricular filling pressure of about 15% and right-atrial mean pressure of 21 and 24%, respectively, with isosorbide dinitrate and prazosin, while there was no change with dihydralazine. Cardiac output rose by 23% with dihydralazine and 20% with prazosin, but remained unchanged with isosorbide dinitrate. These data indicate that a reduction in pulmonary and systemic-venous congestion due to chronic decompensated cardiac failure can be achieved with isosorbide dinitrate and prazosin, while cardiac output can be improved only with prazosin and dihydralazine.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004078:Dihydralazine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D006830:Hydralazine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D007548:Isosorbide Dinitrate / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011224:Prazosin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011799:Quinazolines / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D011799:Quinazolines; D006830:Hydralazine; D007548:Isosorbide Dinitrate; D004078:Dihydralazine; D011224:Prazosin
vernacular_title: Oral wirksame Vasodilatoren bei der chronischen therapieresistenten Herzinsuffizienz. Wirkungsvergleich von Isosorbiddinitrat, Prazosin und Dihydralazin.