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Hemodynamic response to exercise before and 10 minutes after propranolol (5 mg intravenously) was studied in 10 young patients with pure mitral stenosis who had normal sinus rhythm and no cardiac failure. After propranolol the mean heart rate and cardiac index at rest were lower than during the control state (respectively, 95 +/- 4 versus 82 +/- 3 beats/min, P less than 0.005; 3.4 +/- 0.2 versus 2.8 +/- 0.1 liters/min per m2, P less than 0.025). As a result, the mean pulmonary wedge pressure and mean mitral valve gradient at rest were lower (respectively, 22 +/- 2 versus 18 +/- 2 mm Hg, P less than 0.005; 24 +/- 2 versus 17 +/- 2 mm Hg, P less than 0.001). During exercise after propranolol the values of pulmonary wedge pressure and mitral valve gradient were lower than control values during exercise (respectively, 39 +/- 3 versus 30 +/- 2 mm Hg, P less than 0.005; 44 +/- 3 versus 32 +/- 3 mm Hg, P less than 0.005), again because of the lower heart rate and cardiac index (130 +/- 6 versus 104 +/- 6 beats/min, P less than 0.001; 4.6 +/- 3 versus 3.7 +/- 2 liters/min per m2, P less than 0.01). Left ventricular end-diastolic pressure and stroke index showed no significant changes. Thus, propranolol may benefit patients with pure mitral stenosis with sinus rhythm and no cardiac failure whose symptoms occur during those reversible conditions characterized by an increase in heart rate or cardiac output, or both.
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