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HYPERTENSION
Volume 55, Issue 5, Pages 1137-1142Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.109.141531
Keywords
resistant hypertension; hyperaldosteronism; cardiac volume; cardiac hypertrophy
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [P50 HL077100, RO1-HL79040]
- General Clinical Research Center [M01-RR00032]
- Sociedad Espanola de Cardiologia
- American College of Cardiology Foundation/GE Healthcare Career Development Award
- [T32 HL007457]
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We have shown 1 previously that patients with resistant hypertension and hyperaldosteronism have increased brain natriuretic peptide suggestive of increased intravascular volume, In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that hyperaldosteronism contributes to cardiac volume overload. Thirty-seven resistant hypertensive patients with hyperaldosteronism (urinary aldosterone >= 12 mu g/24 hours and plasma renin activity <= 1,0 ng/mL per hour) and 71 patients with normal aldosterone status were studied, Both groups had similar blood pressure and left ventricular mass, whereas left and right ventricular end-diastolic volumes measured by cardiac MRI. were greater in high versus normal aldosterone subjects (P<0.05). Spironolactone treatment (19 patients in the high aldosterone group and 15 patients from the normal. aldosterone group participated in the follow-up) resulted in a significant decrease in clinic systolic blood pressure, right and left ventricular end diastolic volumes, left atrial volume, left ventricular mass, and brain natriuretic peptide at 3 and 6 months of follow-up in patients with high aldosterone, whereas in those with normal aldosterone status, spironolactone decreased blood pressure and left ventricular mass without changes in ventricular or atrial volumes or plasma brain natriuretic peptide. Hyperaldosteronism causes intracardiac volume overload in patients with resistant hypertension in spite of conventional thiazide diuretic use. Mineralocorticoid receptor blockade induces rapid regression of left ventricular hypertrophy irrespective of aldosterone suns. In subjects with high aldosterone, mineralocorticoid receptor blockade induces a prominent diuretic effect compared with a greater vasodilatory effect in subjects with normal aldosterone status. (Hypertension. 2010;55:1137-1142.)
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