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In particular, peripheral alpha-1 antagonists are associated with an increase in plasma norepinephrine in diverse patient populations, as summarized in Table 3. This table reflects increases in norepinephrine in normotensive patients, hypertensive patients, and patients with chronic congestive heart failure from a variety of these small studies.
The doxazosin arm of ALLHAT was stopped early, due to a doubling of the incidence of congestive heart failure in this group, as compared to the low-dose chlorthalidone arm [ 1 ] . Prior to this publication, there had been no obvious suggestion of a mechanism by which peripheral alpha-1 antagonists in general or doxazosin in particular would be inferior to chlorthalidone or would specifically cause CHF.
Of patients hospitalized for atrial fibrillation, the most common secondary diagnosis was hypertensive heart disease (15%), followed by congestive heart failure (11%).
It must be recognized that agents that increase the amplitude of the calcium transient through activation of protein kinase A, such as phosphodiesterase inhibitors are associated with adverse outcomes in congestive heart failure patients [ 27 ] , and so our findings with dobutamine are unlikely to translate into clinical benefit.
Wiltshire starts with a review of Johnson's own medical history: juvenile scrofula, poor vision in one eye, the famous “tics and gesticulations,” gout, asthma, a stroke with transient aphasia, and finally “dropsy” with death due to arteriosclerotic heart disease with congestive failure.
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