Vascular tone in heart failure: the neuroendocrine-therapeutic interface.
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Vascular tone in heart failure: the neuroendocrine-therapeutic interface.
Impaired cardiac function is of course the primary problem in heart failure, but it is also the stimulus to activation of several integrated neuroendocrine systems. Activation of these neuroendocrine systems at first seems to have important beneficial effects for the failing circulation-maintaining cardiac output, blood pressure, blood flow to essential organs, and the glomerular filtration rat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1991
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.66.4.264