Korean Circ J.  1972 Dec;2(2):57-64. 10.4070/kcj.1972.2.2.57.

Treatment of Cardiac Neurosis with Propranolol (Inderal(R))

• Song HS
• Park SK
• Ro JY
• Suh SK

• KMID: 1659463
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4070/kcj.1972.2.2.57

Abstract

Thirty-seven cases of cardiac neurosis were treated with propranolol (Inderal(R)) and following results were obtained. 1) Symptoms, such as palpitation, dyspnea, chest tightness and chest pain were disappeared or improved in all cases. 2) Heart rate reduced significantly after treatment from 99.8 per minutes to 74.8 per minutes. 3) Systolic blood pressure reduced significantly after treatment from 147.6 mmHg to 131.4 mmHg. but diastolic blood pressure were not reduced significantly. These results indicated that propranolol is recommendable medicine for improving cardiac symptoms and tachycardia in cardiac neurosis.

MeSH Terms

Blood Pressure
Chest Pain
Dyspnea
Heart Rate
Neurocirculatory Asthenia*
Propranolol*
Tachycardia
Thorax
Propranolol