Liver cirrhosis and arterial hypertension

Figure 1 Controls without liver disease, nor-motensive and hypertensive patients with cirrhosis, and patients with essential hyperten-sion. A, Mean arterial blood pressure; B, cardiac output; C, central blood volume as percent of blood volume (CBV/BV); D, systemic vas-cular resistance; and E: arterial compliance. From Henriksen et al. (Ref. 31). Open boxes re-present normotensive subjects, gray boxes are hypertensive.

Figure 2 Change in arterial blood pressure in two patients with arterial hypertension. (A, 39-year-old woman with essential hypertension; B, 59-year-old woman with hypertension of renal origin.) A decrease in the arterial blood pressure is seen when the patients develop cirrhosis. From Loyke 1962 (reproduced with the permission of Archives of Internal Medicine, Ref. 23).