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Dynamics of mitral regurgitation during nitroglycerin therapy: a Doppler echocardiographic study.

Abstract
Seven patients with decompensated chronic heart failure and functional mitral regurgitation were studied before and during administration of nitroglycerin at a mean dose of 42 micrograms/min (range 20 to 90 micrograms/min). Forward aortic flow obtained by pulsed Doppler increased significantly from 35 +/- 8 to 45 +/- 9 ml/beat (p less than 0.001) and correlated well with the cardiac output measured by thermodilution technique (r = 0.8). Whereas regurgitant mitral volume calculated from the difference between echocardiographic total stroke volume and forward aortic flow decreased significantly from 19 +/- 9 to 3 +/- 3 ml/beat (p less than 0.001), peak velocity of mitral regurgitant flow increased from 4.1 +/- 0.9 to 4.4 +/- 1.0 m/sec (p less than 0.05). The decrease in effective mitral regurgitation area derived from a modified Gorlin formula average 80%. Accordingly, in patients with decompensated chronic heart failure and functional mitral regurgitation, nitroglycerin decreases mitral regurgitant area substantially, and thus almost abolishes mitral regurgitation despite an increase in systolic pressure gradient between left ventricle and atrium. Moreover, the increase in forward flow can be entirely accounted for by the reduction in mitral regurgitant flow.
AuthorsG Keren, A Bier, J A Strom, S Laniado, E H Sonnenblick, T H LeJemtel
JournalAmerican heart journal (Am Heart J) Vol. 112 Issue 3 Pg. 517-25 (Sep 1986) ISSN: 0002-8703 [Print] United States
PMID3092608 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Nitroglycerin
Topics
  • Aged
  • Echocardiography
  • Female
  • Heart Failure (complications, drug therapy, physiopathology)
  • Hemodynamics
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency (complications, drug therapy, physiopathology)
  • Nitroglycerin (therapeutic use)
  • Ultrasonics

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