[Calcium channel inhibitors and ventricular filling].

Abstract

Abnormalities of ventricular relaxation and compliance often precede changes in systolic function in ischemic and hypertrophic or hypertensive heart disease. Several studies using non-invasive methods have confirmed the beneficial effects of calcium channel blockers on left ventricular diastolic function in ischemic and primary hypertrophic cardiomyopathies. Their usefulness remains controversial in secondary cardiac hypertrophy such as in hypertensive heart disease. Improved left ventricular isovolumic relaxation and filling results more from the coronary and peripheral vasodilatory effects of calcium channel blockers than from a direct action on the cardiac muscle.

• Authors: M Dorobantu, J P Bounhoure
• Journal: Archives des maladies du coeur et des vaisseaux (Arch Mal Coeur Vaiss) Vol. 85 Issue 11 Pg. 1579-85 (Nov 1992) ISSN: 0003-9683 [Print] France
• Vernacular Title: Inhibiteurs calciques et remplissage ventriculaire.
• PMID: 1300955 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article, Review)

Chemical References

• Calcium Channel Blockers

Topics

• Calcium Channel Blockers (pharmacology, therapeutic use)
• Humans
• Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular (drug therapy, physiopathology)
• Myocardial Contraction (drug effects)
• Myocardial Ischemia (drug therapy, physiopathology)
• Ventricular Function (drug effects)