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Hypertension, Vol 24, 271-279, Copyright © 1994 by American Heart Association

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Effects of atrial natriuretic peptide on left ventricular function in hypertension

MJ Semigran, CN Aroney, HC Herrmann, GW Dec, CA Boucher and MA Fifer
Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114.

Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) has natriuretic and vasodilator actions that lower arterial pressure and may be beneficial to hypertensive patients. To assess the effects of ANP on left ventricular function in patients with hypertension, we compared it with the pure vasodilator nitroprusside. Simultaneous left ventricular micromanometer pressure and radionuclide volume were obtained at baseline, during nitroprusside infusion, during a second baseline period, and during ANP infusion in 10 patients with hypertension. Mean arterial pressure fell during ANP and nitroprusside. Heart rate and plasma norepinephrine levels increased by similar amounts during the two agents, whereas cardiac index and stroke volume index were unchanged during both. Peak positive left ventricular dP/dt fell similarly during ANP and nitroprusside, but left ventricular dP/dt at a developed pressure of 40 mm Hg, a less load-dependent index of contractility, was unchanged during both. The relation between end-systolic pressure and volume during ANP infusion was not shifted leftward or rightward from that during nitroprusside infusion, indicating no inotropic effect. Both ANP and nitroprusside shortened at time constant of isovolumic relaxation calculated by the logarithmic method but did not change the time constant calculated by the derivative method. Peak filling rate was unchanged from baseline during both agents. ANP did not shift the end- diastolic pressure-volume point away from the relation constructed from baseline and nitroprusside points. We conclude that ANP has no direct effect on myocardial contractile or diastolic function in patients with hypertension.

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