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Essential role of mean circulatory filling pressure in salt-induced hypertension

R. D. Manning Jr, T. G. Coleman, A. C. Guyton, R. A. Norman Jr and R. E. McCaa

Experimental hypertension was produced in nine dogs by continuously infusing isotonic saline after renal mass had been surgically reduced to approximately 30% normal. Data were collected during 8 days of base-line measurements and 13 days of saline infusion to determine the cause of the initial increase in cardiac output observed in this type of hypertension and to measure other variables possibly important in the pathogenesis of hypertension. During the infusion period, these dogs demonstrated an increase in arterial pressure to hypertensive levels, transient increases in blood volume, sodium space, and cardiac output, initially depressed then subsequently elevated total peripheral resistance, and decreases in plasma renin activity and plasma aldosterone concentration. The mean circulatory filling pressure increased 4.7 Torr by day 3 and was still elevated 2 Torr at the end of the 2nd wk of infusion. We conclude that the initial increase in cardiac output in salt-loading hypertension is due to elevated fluid volumes and the associated increase in mean circulatory filling pressure.

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