Immersion of the hand into ice water (cold-pressor test) in nine hypertensive subjects induced elevation of mean blood pressure, increase of vascular resistance in the extremities, decrease of blood flow in the extremities, and increase in heart rate. The preejection phase of systole was not altered. Indoramin and propranolol, each alone and together, attenuated the pressor and other cardiovascular responses. Submaximal exercise increased heart rate during placebo treatment, a response only partially attenuated by indoramin, propranolol, and their combination, but it did not induce changes in mean blood pressure during any of the treatments.
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Echocardiographic investigations on patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with obstruction have been detailed and compared with the changes found in sixty patients with chronic Chagas' 'cardiomyopathy'. These changes are similar to those encountered in congestive cardiomyopathy. Endomyocardial fibrosis is rare in Venezuela, but six patients have been found in that country and the echocardiographic changes in one of these patients has been included in this study.
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