[Changes in central and periferal hemodynamics in patients with hypertensive conditions treated by reflexotherapy]

The results of an echocardiographic study of central hemodynamics and a rheovasographic study of vascular tonicity under the effect of reflex therapy in patients with essential hypertension (EH), stages IB-IIA, and those with neurocirculatory dystonia (NCD) associated with the hypertensive syndrome are reported. Initially, patients with NCD and EH, stage IB, showed hyperkinetic circulation, and those with EH, stage IIA, had hypokinetic circulation. The EH patients also exhibited elevated peripheral vascular tone. Minute volume of the heart was reduced in response to treatment in patients with NCD and EH, stage IB, and increased in those with EH, stage IIA in the presence of depressed BP. Peripheral vascular tone decreased in EH patients. Therefore, the two functional tests demonstrated the possibility of reflex control of hemodynamic disorders in hypertensive patients, with eukinetic circulation restored irrespective of their original nature.