Beta-Blockade in the Hyperventilation Syndrome. A Retrospective Assessment of Symptoms and Complaints
作者:
H. Folgering,
H. Rutten,
Y. Roumen,
期刊:
Respiration
(Karger Available online 1983)
卷期:
Volume 44,
issue 1
页码: 19-25
ISSN:0025-7931
年代: 1983
DOI:10.1159/000194523
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Hyperventilation syndrome;Metoprolol;Propranolol
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
The effect of β-adrenergic blockade on ventilatory parameters and on subjective complaints was studied in 73 patients suffering from hyperventilation syndrome. The β-blockade made the PA,co2 increase as much as tranquillizer therapy. No effect of any kind of therapy was found on the subjective complaints. A remarkable dissociation was found between the measured ventilatory parameters and the quantified subjective complaints. It is concluded that β-blockade is an effective therapy for the basic problem of hypocapnia in the hyperventilation syndrome; in this respect it is to be preferred over other therapies such as tranquilliz
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