SAGE Journals Online
Advertisement
Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.

 

Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Advertisement

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Angiology
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Bellandi, F.
Right arrow Articles by Morace, G.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Bellandi, F.
Right arrow Articles by Morace, G.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Muscular Blood Flow in Patients with Heart Failure

Francesco Bellandi

Institute di Clinica Medica IV dell'Universita degli Studi di Florence, Florence, Italy

Maurizio De Scalzi

Institute di Clinica Medica II dell'Universita degli Studi di Florence, Florence, Italy

Vittorio de Leonardis

Institute di Clinica Medica II dell'Universita degli Studi di Florence, Florence, Italy

Luca Arena

Institute di Clinica Medica IV dell'Universita degli Studi di Florence, Florence, Italy

Brunella Belli

Institute di Clinica Medica IV dell'Universita degli Studi di Florence, Florence, Italy

Susanna Barbagli

Institute di Clinica Medica IV dell'Universita degli Studi di Florence, Florence, Italy

Giandomenico Morace

Institute di Clinica Medica IV dell'Universita degli Studi di Florence, Florence, Italy

Piero Cinelli

Institute di Clinica Medica II dell'Universita degli Studi di Florence, Florence, Italy

Giorgio Morace

Via L. Castaldi, 2/6 50139 Florence, Italy

We studied reactive hyperemia in a group of patients with heart failure before and after therapy, since changes in the characteristics of muscular blood flow may influence the functional class of these patients. At the same time we evaluated some echocardiographic parameters too.

When the patients improved clinically, they showed an increase in muscular blood flow at rest and in percent of fractional shortening and a decrease in peripheral vascular resistance. The reactive hyperemia did not change significantly.

This fact probably depends on a maximal response to the postischemic hyperemia and represents the integrity of autoregulatory mechanisms.

Angiology, Vol. 37, No. 9, 658-662 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/000331978603700907
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?




Advertisement