Elevated angiotensin-i-converting enzyme (ACE) in patients with essential hypertension
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Molecular Medicine
- Vol. 60 (1) , 49-50
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01721587
Abstract
We investigated the alteration of the ACE in different parts of the circulation in 21 patients with essential hypertension, who suffered from angina pectoris attacks. Blood samples were taken during diagnostic cardiac catheterisation. The ACE was fluorimetrically measured and compared to 48 normotensive patients. In 11 patients the Plasma Renin Activity (PRA) was additionally determined by means of bioassay. The ACE was significantly (pp<0,001) erhöht. Eine unterschiedliche Verteilung konnte nicht nachgewiesen werden. Wir fanden eine positive Korrelation zwischen dem ACE, gemessen im linken Ventrikel, und dem systolischen, diastolischen sowie dem arteriellen Mitteldruck. Außerdem zeigte sich eine negative Korrelation zwischen dem ACE und der PRA. Keine Beziehung konnte zwischen ACE und Elektrolyten, Kreatinin und hämodynamischen Parametern beobachtet werden. Wir vermuten, daß dem ACE bei der Pathogenese der sogenannten essentiellen Hypertonie eine Bedeutung zukommt.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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