Pulmonary pressure and arteriolar resistance are elevated in uncomplicated primary systemic hypertension. This study was carried out in 16 men with this form of hypertension and in 9 healthy men to compare 1) their pulmonary vascular reactivity to endogenous catecholamines released during mental arithmetic and cold pressor tests, and 2) the dose-response relation to exogenous epinephrine and norepinephrine. Arithmetic and cold pressor tests were associated, respectively, with a predominant increase in plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine concentration; changes were significantly greater in hypertensive men. During the two tests, pulmonary arteriolar resistance in the normotensive group was reduced by 13% and augmented by 7% of baseline, respectively, whereas it was raised by 31 and 70%, respectively, in the hypertensive group. In normal subjects, the dose (microgram)-response (delta dynes) relation to epinephrine was 1 = -4, 2 = -9, 3 = -9 and 4 = -10; to norepinephrine it was 2 = +3, 4 = +6, 6 = +7 and 8 = +7. In hypertensive patients, the respective relations were 1 = +18, 2 = +44, 3 = +59 and 4 = +77; and 2 = +39, 4 = +54, 6 = +76 and 8 = +98. Group differences were highly significant. In each of these circumstances, the driving pressure across the lungs was significantly augmented in the hypertensive but not the normotensive group. Both epinephrine and norepinephrine have a vasoconstrictor influence on the lesser circulation as a consequence of vascular overreactivity. The opposite changes in resistance between normotensive and hypertensive subjects produced by epinephrine suggest that a constrictor vascular supersensitivity becomes active in the pulmonary circuit with the development of systemic high blood pressure.

Pulmonary vascular supersensitivity to catecholamines in systemic high blood pressure / M. D. Guazzi, N. De Cesare, C. Fiorentini, C. Galli, P. Montorsi, M. Pepi, G. Tamborini. - In: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY. - ISSN 0735-1097. - 8:5(1986 Nov), pp. 1137-1144.

Pulmonary vascular supersensitivity to catecholamines in systemic high blood pressure

C. Fiorentini;C. Galli;P. Montorsi;
1986

Abstract

Pulmonary pressure and arteriolar resistance are elevated in uncomplicated primary systemic hypertension. This study was carried out in 16 men with this form of hypertension and in 9 healthy men to compare 1) their pulmonary vascular reactivity to endogenous catecholamines released during mental arithmetic and cold pressor tests, and 2) the dose-response relation to exogenous epinephrine and norepinephrine. Arithmetic and cold pressor tests were associated, respectively, with a predominant increase in plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine concentration; changes were significantly greater in hypertensive men. During the two tests, pulmonary arteriolar resistance in the normotensive group was reduced by 13% and augmented by 7% of baseline, respectively, whereas it was raised by 31 and 70%, respectively, in the hypertensive group. In normal subjects, the dose (microgram)-response (delta dynes) relation to epinephrine was 1 = -4, 2 = -9, 3 = -9 and 4 = -10; to norepinephrine it was 2 = +3, 4 = +6, 6 = +7 and 8 = +7. In hypertensive patients, the respective relations were 1 = +18, 2 = +44, 3 = +59 and 4 = +77; and 2 = +39, 4 = +54, 6 = +76 and 8 = +98. Group differences were highly significant. In each of these circumstances, the driving pressure across the lungs was significantly augmented in the hypertensive but not the normotensive group. Both epinephrine and norepinephrine have a vasoconstrictor influence on the lesser circulation as a consequence of vascular overreactivity. The opposite changes in resistance between normotensive and hypertensive subjects produced by epinephrine suggest that a constrictor vascular supersensitivity becomes active in the pulmonary circuit with the development of systemic high blood pressure.
Pulmonary Artery; Vascular Resistance; Blood Pressure; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Humans; Stress, Psychological; Norepinephrine; Cold Temperature; Epinephrine; Male; Hypertension
Settore MED/11 - Malattie dell'Apparato Cardiovascolare
nov-1986
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