title: Influence of hemodynamic changes on neuroendocrine response in acute heart failure.
abstract: We studied 15 patients with acute deterioration of chronic left ventricular heart failure. We compared the influence of reduction of ventricular filling pressures with glyceryl trinitrate versus reduction of ventricular filling pressures with diuretics on plasma concentration of epinephrine, norepinephrine, aldosterone and renin activity. Reduction of ventricular filling pressures with glyceryl trinitrate had no influence on plasma concentrations of epinephrine, norepinephrine, aldosterone and renin activity. After reduction of ventricular filling pressures with diuretics plasma concentrations of epinephrine, norepinephrine and aldosterone decreased, while plasma renin activity did not change. We conclude that there is a difference in the influence of reduction of ventricular filling pressures with glyceryl trinitrate versus reduction of ventricular filling pressures with diuretics, on neuroendocrine response in patients with acute deterioration of left ventricular heart failure. Thus some of the neuroendocrine effects of glyceryl trinitrate are likely to be different from those of diuretics, though that they both produce a reduction in left ventricular filling pressure.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Intensive Internal Medicine, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pohar
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Horvat
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D000450:Aldosterone / Q000097:blood*; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004232:Diuretics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004837:Epinephrine / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D005996:Nitroglycerin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000097:blood*; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D012083:Renin / Q000097:blood*; D014665:Vasodilator Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D018754:Ventricular Dysfunction / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D017725:Ventricular Pressure / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D004232:Diuretics; D014665:Vasodilator Agents; D000450:Aldosterone; D012083:Renin; D005996:Nitroglycerin; D009638:Norepinephrine; D004837:Epinephrine