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(Circulation. 1956;13:524.)
© 1956 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Peripheral Venoconstriction in Human Congestive Heart Failure

J. EDWIN WOOD M.D.¹; JULIUS LITTER M.D.¹; ROBERT W. WILKINS M.D.¹

¹ From the Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals and the Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

A method for measuring venous "tone" in the limb segment of man in vivo was used to study the problem of cardiac decompensation. Venoconstriction was present in patients with heart failure and it tended to remit as the patients improved.

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