Molecular mechanisms of systemic vasodilation and hyperdynamic circulatory state of cirrhosis
Molecular mechanisms of systemic vasodilation and hyperdynamic circulatory state of cirrhosis
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10.1007/978-1-59259-885-4_4
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2005-01-01
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Lebrec, D
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Moreau, R;Lebrec, D
Portal hypertension due to cirrhosis is associated with a chronic hyperkinetic syndrome (1–3). This syndrome is characterized by elevated cardiac output, low arterial pressure, and low systemic vascular resistance (2,3). Splanchnic circulation is also hyperdynamic, i.e., blood flow is elevated and vascular resistance is low in arteries that supply splanchnic organs (1,4). Systemic and splanchnic alterations are interrelated: decreased systemic vascular resistance (systemic vasodilation) is largely due to the decrease in splanchnic arterial resistance (splanchnic vasodilation) (5). Finally, in cirrhosis, there is in vivo and ex vivo arterial hyporeactivity to different receptor-dependent and -independent vasoconstrictors (6–14). A hyperkinetic syndrome also occurs in extrahepatic portal hypertension (15), but it is less marked than that observed in cirrhosis.