Compared with control subjects, the systemic sympathetic nervous system is activated in patients with mitral regurgitation
Compared with control subjects, the systemic sympathetic nervous system is activated in patients with mitral regurgitation
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DOI:
10.1016/s0002-8703(03)00111-x
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发表时间:
2003-06-01
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Starling, MR
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作者:
Mehta, RH;Supiano, MA;Starling, MR
Background Whether the systemic sympathetic nervous system is activated as a compensatory mechanism in response to mitral regurgitation (MR) in humans is unknown: We tested the hypotheses that the systemic sympathetic nervous system would be activated in patients with MR in comparison with control subjects and that this activation would occur early in the disease process as a compensatory mechanism for chronic left ventricular (LV) volume overload.Methods We studied 37 patients with MR who underwent right heart catheterization and biplane cineventriculography to obtain LV end-diastolic and end-systolic volumes, ejection fractions, and regurgitant volumes. In these 37 patients with MR and in 3 control subjects, an [H-3]-norepinephrine ([H-3]-NE) infusion and multiple arterial blood samples provided data for a 2-compartment modeling analysis to calculate extravascular NE release rates (NE2).Results The mean NE2 (2.05 +/- 0.76 mug/min/m(2)) in the patients with MR was greater than that in the control sub/m(2), projects (1.48 +/- 0.75 mug/min/m(2), P = .007). Furthermore, the mean NE2 values were also greater in the patients with MR who were in clinical class I (P = .05), with a pulmonary capillary wedge pressure