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Song, Park, Ro, and Suh: Treatment of Cardiac Neurosis with Propranolol (Inderal®)
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Korean Circulation Journal

Korean Circulation Journal 1972; 2(2): 57-64.

Published online: 31 December 1972

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4070/kcj.1972.2.2.57

Treatment of Cardiac Neurosis with Propranolol (Inderal®)

Hee Sung Song, M.D., Shin Kwon Park, M.D., Jin Young Ro, M.D., Soon Kyu Suh, M.D.

Copyright © 1972 The Korean Society of Circulation

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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Thirty-seven cases of cardiac neurosis were treated with propranolol (Inderal®) 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.

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