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Papers by Robert Rangno

Journal of Clinical Investigation, 1973

Previous studies have shown that amphetamine and p-hydroxyamphetamine impair adrenergic transmiss... more Previous studies have shown that amphetamine and p-hydroxyamphetamine impair adrenergic transmission, and it has been suggested that this effect is mediated by an active metabolite, p-hydroxynorephedrine (PHN). Studies in experimental animals have shown that PHN can deplete and substitute for norepinephrine (NE) in the transmitter pool, thus meeting the criteria of a false neurotransmitter. The pharmacologic effects of PHN on adrenergic function and NE synthesis were studied in eight hypertensive patients and compared with placebo. Mean erect and supine blood pressure (BP) decreased 22/14 and 9/6 mm Hg, respectively, during PHN 600 mg daily. The post-Valsalva diastolic overshoot was abolished. The pressor sensitivity to tyramine decreased whereas the pressor response to NE was enhanced. A mild natriuresis occurred. The 24 h urinary excretion of catecholamines and catecholamine metabolites during the administration of PHN compared with placebo changed as follows: vanillylmandelic acid (VMA), 42% decrease; NE, 42% decrease; normetanephrine (NM), 400% increase; metanephrine, unchanged; dopamine, 40% decrease; while homovanillic acid was unchanged. The sum of VMA, NE, and NM decreased 23%. The posttreatment urinary excretion of PHN was biexponential with first and second phase half-lives of 13 and 55 h, respectively. The time of the second phase closely approximated the recovery of the changes in BP and ex-This work was presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the American Federation for Clinical Research, Atlantic City, N. J., May 1970.

Canadian Medical Association Journal, Jan 13, 1998

Cmaj Canadian Medical Association Journal, Aug 15, 1997

LONG-TERM POPULATION-BASED STUDIES have identified and quantified risk factors for cardiovascular... more LONG-TERM POPULATION-BASED STUDIES have identified and quantified risk factors for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular (CCV) events. In addition, a number of well-designed clinical trials have shown that various drug therapies that reduce these factors decrease the risk of some CCV events. In the practice of evidence-based medicine, data from clinical trials should inform treatment decisions. The clinician and patient, however, are faced with the difficult task of assessing the patient's particular risk and likelihood of benefit on the basis of the results of large, randomized trials. To assist clinicians and their patients in arriving at treatment decisions, the authors provide simple nomograms for estimating the risk of a CCV event for an individual patient and suggest an approach to estimating the potential benefit of drug therapy for primary prevention.

Clinical Chemistry

We present a specific, sensitive high-pressure liquid-chromatographic assay for theophylline in p... more We present a specific, sensitive high-pressure liquid-chromatographic assay for theophylline in plasma. Only 0.5 ml of plasma is required for each determination, and the lower limit of detection by this method is 0.1 mg/liter. Other xanthines and their metabolites do not interfere. This method is suitable for use in studying the pharmacokinetics of this drug in infants and children, from whom only small volumes of blood are available.

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Canadian Medical Association Journal

Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, 1982

Eight patients taking metoprolol (300 mg/day) for essential hypertension were studied after abrup... more Eight patients taking metoprolol (300 mg/day) for essential hypertension were studied after abrupt withdrawal and placebo replacement of the drug. A 52% average rebound increase in cardiac chronotropic sensitivity to isoproterenol and 15% rebound rise in resting heart rate occurred in all patients between 2 to 8 days after metoprolol withdrawal (P less than 0.05). Holter monitoring showed no associated arrhythmia. A transient increase in blood pressure occurred in one patient and withdrawal-like symptoms were noted in three patients. There were no meaningful changes in plasma norepinephrine, epinephrine, thyroxine, or triiodothyronine. Seven of the eight patients were again studied serially after the same metoprolol dosing, during a prolonged low-dose withdrawal schedule (50 mg/day for 10 days) and during placebo. Prolonged low dose before complete metoprolol withdrawal decreased but did not completely prevent the changes observed after abrupt withdrawal. The observed rebound of car...

Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics

ABSTRACT

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 1982

Abrupt withdrawal of some beta-adrenergic blockers has resulted in clinical syndromes suggestive ... more Abrupt withdrawal of some beta-adrenergic blockers has resulted in clinical syndromes suggestive of adrenergic hypersensitivity that may be due to an adaptive increase in cardiac beta-receptor responsiveness. it was postulated that the partial agonist activity of pindolol might limit enhanced responsiveness of cardiac beta receptors and prevent or diminish withdrawal manifestations. Pindolol was given to 10 hypertensive patients in doses of 10 mg b.i.d. for at least 4 wk, then abruptly replaced with placebo for 20 days. Cardiac chronotropic responsiveness to isoproterenol was decreased on pindolol and gradually returned to normal over 10 to 20 days with no evidence of enhanced responsiveness. In contrast, both resting and exercise heart rate showed rebound increase in responsiveness between the second to sixth day after pindolol (P less than 0.05). Resting and exercise blood pressures gradually rose to stable values without rebound. Plasma norepinephrine and epinephrine and serum thyroxine and triiodothyronine did not change. These data show that abrupt withdrawal of pindolol after long-term dosing leads to transient cardiac hyperresponsiveness of resting and exercise heart rate at the same time as persistent cardiac hyporesponsiveness to isoproterenol. These opposite effects of pindolol on subsets of cardiac beta-adrenergic chronotropic receptors.

CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, Jan 22, 2002

CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, Jan 25, 2002

Page 1. CMAJ • JUNE 25, 2002; 166 (13) 1649 © 2002 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors ... more Page 1. CMAJ • JUNE 25, 2002; 166 (13) 1649 © 2002 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Letters Correspondance Digging for data from the COX-2 trials We agree with Joel Lexchin's re-quest for more access to ...

Canadian family physician Médecin de famille canadien, 2003

New England Journal of Medicine, 1977

To determine the role of liver dysfunction in theophylline toxicity, we administered single intra... more To determine the role of liver dysfunction in theophylline toxicity, we administered single intravenous doses of the drug to nine patients with cirrhosis and observed its disposition over a period of 24 to 48 hours. As compared to 19 normal subjects, these patients had a prolonged plasma half-life (mean, 25.6 vs. 6.7 hours) and a decreased plasma clearance (mean, 0.042 vs. 0.062 liter[kg-1]hr-1). Volumes of distribution of theophylline in the cirrhotic patients (central-compartment volume of 0.330, and steady-state volume of distribution of 0.785 liter per kilogram) did not substantially differ from normal (0.246 and 0.508 respectively). Plasma theophylline binding in three patients with cirrhosis averaged 36.8 per cent as compared to 52.6 per cent in four normal subjects. There was no correlation between any laboratory test of liver function and the plasma theophylline half-life, except for serum albumin (r = 0.92, P less than 0.001). The variable capacity to eliminate theophylline precludes the use of usual maintenance dose schedules for bronchodilation in cirrhosis.

The Lancet, 1998

The way in which dissemination of evidence changes medical practice needs to be better understood... more The way in which dissemination of evidence changes medical practice needs to be better understood. Controversy about calcium-channel blockers (CCB) in the past 3 years has provided a natural experiment, enabling assessment of the impact of media stories, a national warning letter, a teleconference, small group workshops, and newsletters on first-line prescribing of antihypertensive drugs. We included all physicians (4403) in British Columbia who prescribed a thiazide diuretic, beta-blocker, inhibitor of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), or CCB as the first antihypertensive agent for 36,507 residents aged 66 years and over, with no previous or concurrent sign of underlying cardiovascular disease. We used a database covering all prescriptions to elderly people to measure the change in proportion of newly treated patients who received each class of drug as first-line therapy. We used a matched cohort design for assessment of the teleconference and workshops, a randomised community design for the newsletters, and time-series analysis for the media impacts. The proportion of patients who received a CCB as first-line therapy declined gradually from 22% in early 1994 to 15% in late 1996. This proportion was not affected by two waves of adverse news about CCBs in 1995, but fell by 5% for 5 months and by 3% for 1 month after two waves in 1996. The proportion of patients who received either a CCB or an ACE inhibitor as first-line therapy, contrary to guidelines, was still 42% overall in 1996. The workshops and newsletters were followed by shifts from first-line CCB to first-line thiazide prescribing. Changes in prescribing practices occur gradually with the accumulation of small impacts from educational interventions and lay media attention.

The Journal of Pediatrics, 1962

Critical Care Medicine, 1993

Critical Care Medicine, 1982

It was traditionally assumed that ethanol, as part of an intentional drug overdose, will increase... more It was traditionally assumed that ethanol, as part of an intentional drug overdose, will increase morbidity and mortality. The authors prospectively studied the effect of ethanol on the outcome of intentional drug overdose in 468 adults, 196 of whom required hospital admission. Ethanol was detected in significantly fewer patients who required admission. Ethanol ingestion was not related to coma, impaired vital signs or mortality. Indeed, the duration of coma was significantly shorter in patients in whom ethanol was detected, but this group had a lesser incidence of multiple drug and nonbarbiturate hypnotic ingestion and a greater incidence of chronic ethanol use. Thus, it seems that ethanol is not associated with a worse clinical course if the drug overdose patient reaches medical care before an irreversible event.

Circulation, 1999

In their article, Wilson et al 1 provide useful information that allows clinicians to predict cor... more In their article, Wilson et al 1 provide useful information that allows clinicians to predict coronary heart disease risk in patients without a history of heart disease. This is very much needed because primary care and specialty physicians typically overestimate patients' absolute heart disease risk and the expected benefits of drug therapy given for primary prevention. 2,3 To encourage clinicians to use this type of information, it must be easy to use and incorporate into a busy clinician's practice. 4 In addition, it should facilitate clinicians' discussion of this information with their patients so that an informed decision about drug therapy or other risk reduction strategies can be made.

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 1996

The American Journal of Cardiology, 1982

Abrupt withdrawal of propranoioi may be followed by a "propranoioi withdrawal syndrome" due,'at l... more Abrupt withdrawal of propranoioi may be followed by a "propranoioi withdrawal syndrome" due,'at least in part, to enhanced beta adrenergic sensitivity. Tapering propranoioi dosage is frequently used in the hope of preventing adverse withdrawal events but the success of such a maneuver has not been shown. The rationale for the dose tapering schedule in this study was based on earlier observations after abrupt withdrawal of propranotoi. Nlne hypertensive patients were gradually wlthdrawn from long-term propranoioi therapy, either by serial dose reduction for 6 to 9 days (n = 3) or by reduction to a prolonged small dose (30 mg daily) for 2 weeks before complete withdrawal (n = 6). During dose reduction of propranoiol and for 2 additional weeks of piacebo'therauy, serial measurements were made of cardiac sensitivity to isoproterenoi, heart rate at rest, blood pressure, plasma catechoiamines, serum thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) and symptoms. Serial dose reduction decreased but did not prevent cardiac hypersensitivity in two of three patients. The prolonged smalt dose therapy largely prevented cardiac hypersensitivity and overshoot in heart rate, blood pressure and plasma catecholainines and symptoms. Serum T4 decreased significantly and f3 tended to increase during and after prolonged small dose 'treatment. These results indicate that prolonged administration of small dose propranoioi before complete withdrayai in hypertensive patients prevents enhanced cardiac beta adrenergic sensitivtty and other adverse events.