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. 1987 Jul;24(1):21–32. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.1987.tb03131.x

Immediate effects of bumetanide on systemic haemodynamics and left ventricular volume in acute and chronic heart failure.

S P Verma, B Silke, G Reynolds, P Muller, M A Frais, S H Taylor
PMCID: PMC1386275  PMID: 3304383

Abstract

1 The haemodynamic and radionuclide effects of i.v. bumetanide (25 micrograms kg-1) were prospectively studied in 24 patients with angiographically documented coronary artery disease and either acute exercise-induced (Group I, n = 12) or chronic (Group II, n = 12) heart failure. 2 Bumetanide at rest increased systemic arterial blood pressure and vascular resistance index; cardiac index and pulmonary artery occluded pressure (PAOP) were reduced at an unchanged heart rate in all patients. The left ventricular ejection fraction fell in patients with normal resting left ventricular filling pressure without change in those with chronic heart failure. The cardiac volumes were unchanged in either group. 3 During constant-load supine bicycle exercise, there were similar effects on systemic arterial pressures, vascular resistance index and PAOP; however the cardiac index was maintained at a reduced left ventricular filling pressure and unchanged ejection fraction and volumes. 4 These data demonstrate immediate mild pressor and vasoconstrictor actions of bumetanide which appear independent of the state of cardiac function; they suggest that any immediate improvement in patient symptomatology following bumetanide may be consequent on the reduction in PAOP; short-term reductions in volume may not occur.

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