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  • Title: The acute response of plasma norepinephrine, renin activity, and arginine vasopressin to short-term nitroprusside and nitroprusside withdrawal in patients with congestive heart failure.
    Author: Francis GS, Olivari MT, Goldsmith SR, Levine TB, Pierpont G, Cohn JN.
    Journal: Am Heart J; 1983 Dec; 106(6):1315-20. PubMed ID: 6359844.
    Abstract:
    Activation of the sympathetic nervous system, manifested by an increase in heart rate and circulating plasma norepinephrine, can occur in normal subjects when they are given vasodilators. The extent to which this activation occurs in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) and whether this activation could account for the hemodynamic rebound sometimes observed following abrupt withdrawal of nitroprusside in such patients are unclear. We prospectively and retrospectively studied the effects of nitroprusside on plasma norepinephrine in 38 patients with CHF to determine if acute vasodilator therapy activates this vasoconstrictor system during or following such treatment. Thirty-six of these patients also had plasma renin activity (PRA) measured and plasma arginine vasopressin was measured in 12 patients. Baseline supine plasma norepinephrine (714 +/- 72 pg/ml, +/- SEM), PRA (15 +/- 2 ng/ml/hr), and arginine vasopressin (10 +/- 1 pg/ml) were increased at least twofold in the CHF patients. Nitroprusside (96 +/- 11 micrograms/min) was infused for 63 +/- 5 minutes after achieving an optimal hemodynamic response: cardiac index increased (2.01 +/- 0.08 to 2.67 +/- 0.1 L/min/m2, p less than 0.001), pulmonary artery wedge pressure decreased (25 +/- 1 to 16 +/- 1 mm Hg, p less than 0.001), mean arterial pressure decreased (83 +/- 1 to 72 +/- 1 mm Hg, p less than 0.001), and heart rate was unchanged. Plasma norepinephrine (632 +/- 43 pg/ml), PRA (18 +/- 3 ng/ml/hr), and arginine vasopressin (11 +/- 1 pg/ml) did not change significantly for the group during peak effect of the vasodilator.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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