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(Circulation. 1955;11:702.)
© 1955 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Corticotropin (ACTH) in Heart Disease: Its Paradoxical Effect on Sodium Excretion in Resistant Congestive Failure

AUGUSTO A. CÁMARA M.D.¹ FERDINAND R. SCHEMM M.D.¹

¹ From the Metabolic Unit, Montana Deaconess Hospital and the Department of Medicine of the Great Falls Clinic, Great Falls, Montana.

Since the spring of 1952 we have undertaken a clinical trial of corticotropin in 21 cardiac patients with resistant edema. Of these, there were eight with arteriosclerotic, eight with chronic rheumatic, and three with hypertensive heart disease, while two had cor pulmonale. Beneficial results were obtained in 17, or 81 per cent of the cases. These consisted of a spontaneous diuresis either during corticotropin administration or after its withdrawal, or an alteration of response to mercurials, the patients subsequently responding favorably, whereas they had previously been completely refractory to the mercurial diuretics.

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