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Impaired Response of the Forearm Resistance but not Conductance Vessels to Reactive Hyperemia in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Andrzej Surdacki, MD

Rafal Nizankowski, MD

Andrzej Szczeklik, MD

Jacek S. Dubiel, MD

P. Petkow Dimitrow, MD

Second Department of Cardiology CM Jagiellonian University 17 Kopernika Street 31-501 Kraków Poland

It has been suggested that in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC), vascular abnormali ties are not restricted to the heart. Flow-mediated dilation of peripheral conductance arteries (reflecting their endothelial function) has not yet been studied in HC. Our aim was to assess both flow-dependent dilation of the brachial artery and flow responses (dependent on resistance vessels) during forearm reactive hyperemia (RH) in nontreated HC patients.

The authors studied 13 HC patients and 14 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. None of them exhibited any factors known to be associated with endothelial dysfunc tion. Using 7 MHz ultrasound, brachial artery diameter and Doppler flow velocity were measured continuously at baseline and throughout 1 min of RH following 5 min of forearm ischemia induced by inflation of a blood pressure cuff. Arterial diameter and RH flow are expressed as percent changes with respect to the baseline.

Flow-dependent dilation was similar in the HC patients and control subjects (7.2 ±9.5% vs 9.9 ± 10.4%, p>0.05). Compared to the control group, RH flow in HC was decreased; however, differences did not reach statistical significance until 60 sec of RH (112 ±102% vs 261 ±217%, p<0.05; HC vs controls).

In HC patients, endothelial function of peripheral conductance arteries is preserved. Hence, a defect in the forearm arterial bed in HC seems to be limited to mechanisms maintaining the dilation of resistance vessels during decreasing RH flow.

Angiology, Vol. 50, No. 4, 267-272 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/000331979905000401


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