Hemodilution Reduces Clinic and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Polycythemic Patients

Author:

Bertinieri Giovanni1,Parati Gianfranco1,Ulian Luisa1,Santucciu Cinzia1,Massaro Paolo1,Cosentini Roberto1,Torgano Giuseppe1,Morganti Alberto1,Mancia Giuseppe1

Affiliation:

1. From the Cattedra di Medicina Interna I (G.M.), Ospedale S. Gerardo, Monza; Istituto Scientifico Ospedale S. Luca (G.P.), IRCCS, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milano; and Divisione di Medicina d’Urgenza (G.B., P.M., R.C., G.T.) and Centro Fisiologia Clinica e Ipertensione (L.U., C.S., A.M.), Ospedale Maggiore, IRCCS, and University of Milano, Italy.

Abstract

Abstract —Limited information is available for humans on whether blood viscosity affects total peripheral resistance and, hence, blood pressure. Our study was aimed at assessing the effects of acute changes in blood viscosity on both clinic and 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure (BP) values. In 22 normotensive and hypertensive patients with polycythemia, clinic and 24-hour ambulatory BPs were measured before and 7 to 10 days after isovolumic hemodilution; this was performed through the withdrawal of 400 to 700 mL of blood, with concomitant infusion of an equivalent volume of saline-albumin solution. Hematocrit, plasma renin activity, plasma endothelin-1, right atrial diameter (echocardiography), and blood viscosity were measured under both conditions. Plasma renin activity and right atrial diameter were used as indirect markers of blood volume changes. Plasma endothelin-1 was used to obtain information on a vasomotor substance possibly stimulated by our intervention, which could counteract vasomotor effects. Isovolumic hemodilution reduced hematocrit from 0.53±0.05 to 0.49±0.05 ( P <.01). Plasma renin activity, plasma endothelin-1 and right atrial diameter were unchanged. Clinic blood pressure was reduced by hemodilution (systolic, 144.3±5.4 to 136.0±3.9 mm Hg[mean±SEM]; diastolic, 87.0±2.8 to 82.1±2.6 mm Hg, P <.05 for both) and a reduction was observed also for 24-hour average ABP (systolic, 133.6±2.9 to 129.5±2.7 mm Hg; diastolic, 80.0±2.0 to 77.3±1.7 mm Hg, P <.05 for both). The reduction was consistent in hypertensive patients (n=12), whereas in normotensive patients (n=10) it was small and not significant. Both clinic and 24-hour average heart rates were unaffected by the hemodilution. Thus, in polycythemia, reduction in blood viscosity without changing blood volume causes a significant fall in both clinic and 24-hour ambulatory BPs; this is particularly true when, as can often happen, blood pressure is elevated. This emphasizes the importance this variable may have in the determination of blood pressure and the potential therapeutic value of its correction when altered.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Subject

Internal Medicine

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