Plasma adrenaline and noradrenaline during orthostasis in man: the importance of arterial sampling

Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation
S E KjeldsenP Leren

Abstract

Plasma adrenaline and noradrenaline were measured in arterial blood and in forearm venous blood during supine rest and after 30 min standing in normotensive, healthy 50-year-old men (n = 16). After 30 min standing, venous noradrenaline had increased from 1.61 +/- 0.11 to 4.22 +/- 0.30 nmol/l and arterial from 1.43 +/- 0.06 to 2.93 +/- 0.15 nmol/l. Orthostasis induced a seven-fold increment in the forearm arterial-venous difference of noradrenaline from -0.18 +/- 0.08 to -1.29 +/- 0.25 nmol/l (p less than 0.001). Orthostasis more than doubled the forearm arterial-venous difference of adrenaline from 0.15 +/- 0.03 to 0.31 +/- 0.05 nmol/l (p less than 0.001) since arterial adrenaline increased from 0.31 +/- 0.03 to 0.53 +/- 0.05 nmol/l and venous from 0.16 +/- 0.02 to 0.22 +/- 0.02 nmol/l. Arterial adrenaline correlated significantly with venous in the supine (r = 0.64, p less than 0.01) but not in the standing position (r = 0.34, NS). The results indicate that arterial concentrations of adrenaline are a much better indicator of sympatho-adrenal activity during orthostasis than peripheral venous concentrations. For noradrenaline, measurements of arterial concentrations during the orthostatic manoeuvre seem to provide information a...Continue Reading

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