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J Appl Physiol 71: 2224-2230, 1991;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 71, Issue 6 2224-2230, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Forearm vascular resistance increases during static exercise in heart transplant recipients

B. J. Morgan, L. W. DeBoer, M. O. Pease, U. Scherrer, S. F. Vissing and P. Hanson
Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53792.

In heart transplant recipients but not in normal humans, total peripheral vascular resistance increases during static exercise. To determine whether this augmented vasoconstriction limits the vasodilation normally seen in the nonexercising forearm, we measured arterial pressure, heart rate, and forearm blood flow during 30% maximal static handgrip in 9 heart transplant recipients and 10 control subjects. Handgrip evoked comparable increases in mean arterial pressure in the transplant recipients and control subjects (+19 +/- 2 vs. +20 +/- 2 mmHg). Heart rates increased by 14 +/- 3 beats/min in the control subjects but did not change in the transplant recipients. Directionally opposite patterns of forearm vascular resistance were observed in the two groups. In the control subjects, forearm resistance fell during handgrip (-8.8 +/- 1.9 units, P less than 0.05). In contrast, in the transplant recipients, forearm resistance rose during this intervention (+9.0 +/- 2.9 units, P less than 0.05). Thus the vasodilation that normally occurs in the nonexercising forearm during static handgrip is reversed in heart transplant recipients. Vasoconstriction in the forearm contributes to the increase in total peripheral resistance that occurs during static exercise in these individuals.


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