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KMID : 0367419930360070982
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Journal of Korean Pediatric Society
1993 Volume.36 No. 7 p.982 ~ p.986
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Plasma Norepinephrine Levels in Infants and Children with Congestive Heart Failure
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이상욱
김명성/이상락/권태찬/강진무
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Abstract
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To characterize the sympathetic nervous system response to congestive heart failure in infants and children, plasma norepinephrine levels were measured in 29 patients aged 4 months to 15 years undergoing routine cardiac catheterization at Dong
San
Hospital, Keimyung University during the period of 4 months from November 1990 to February 1991.
Plasma norepinephrine levels were significantly higher in patients with heart disease and congestive heart failure than in those without congestive heart failure(P〈0.001).
A significant association was found between the level of plasma norepinephrine and severity of the symptoms of congestive heart failure.
Plasma norepinephrine levels correlated well with size of the shunt (Qp/Qs)(γ=0.75), degree of pulmonary arterial pressure (γ=0.79) and degree of right ventricular pressure (γ=0.82).
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