EFFECT OF BETA-ADRENERGIC-BLOCKADE ON MYOCARDIAL-FUNCTION AND ENERGETICS IN CONGESTIVE HEART-FAILURE - IMPROVEMENTS IN HEMODYNAMIC, CONTRACTILE, AND DIASTOLIC PERFORMANCE WITH BUCINDOLOL
EFFECT OF BETA-ADRENERGIC-BLOCKADE ON MYOCARDIAL-FUNCTION AND ENERGETICS IN CONGESTIVE HEART-FAILURE - IMPROVEMENTS IN HEMODYNAMIC, CONTRACTILE, AND DIASTOLIC PERFORMANCE WITH BUCINDOLOL
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DOI:
10.1161/01.cir.82.2.473
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发表时间:
1990-08-01
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影响因子:
37.8
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GRAYBURN, PA
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作者:
EICHHORN, EJ;BEDOTTO, JB;GRAYBURN, PA
The hemodynamic effects of .beta.-aderenergic blockade with bucindolol, a nonselective .beta.-antagonist with mild vasodilatory properties, were studied in patients with congestive heart failure. Fifteen patients (New York Heart Association class I-IV) underwent cardiac catheterization before and after 3 months of oral therapy with bucindolol. The left ventricular ejection fraction increased from 0.23 .+-. 0.12 to 0.29 .+-. 0.14 (p = 0.007), and end-systolic elastance, a relatively load-independent determinant of contractility, increased from 0.60 .+-. 0.40 to 1.11 .+-. 0.45 mm Hg/ml (p < 0.0049). Both left ventricular stroke work index (34 .+-. 13 to 47 .+-. 19 g-m/m2, p = 0.0059) and minute work (5.5 .+-. 2.2 to 7.0 .+-. 2.6 kg-m/min, p = 0.0096) increased despite reductions in left ventricular end-diasolic pressure (19 .+-. 8 to 15 .+-. 5 mm Hg, p = 0.021). There was an upward shift in the peak + dP/dtmax-end-diastolic volume relation (p = 0.0005). These data demonstrate improvements in myocardial contractility after .beta.-adrenergic blockade with bucindolol. At a matched paced heart rate of 98 .+-. 15 min-1, the time constant of left ventricular isovolumic relaxation was significantly reduced by bucinolol therapy (92 .+-. 17 versus 73 .+-. 11 msec, p = 0.0013), and the relaxation of the time constant to end-systolic pressure was shifted downward (p = 0.014) with therapy. The slope of the logarithm left ventricular end-diastolic pressure-end-diastolic volume relation was unchanged (p = 0.51) after bucindolol. These data suggest that chronic .beta.-adrenergic blockade with bucindolol improves diastolic relaxation but does not alter myocardial chamber stiffness. Myocardial oxygen extraction, consumption, and efficiency were unchanged despite improvement in contractile function and mechanical work. Thus, in patients with congestive heart failure, chronic .beta.-adrenergic blockade with bucindolol significantly improves myocardial contractility and minute work, yet it does not do so at the expense of myocardial oxygen consumption. Additionally, bucindolol improves myocardial relaxation but does not affect chamber stiffness.