[Sympathetic activity and blood pressure in normotensive and hypertensive patients undergoing ophthalmic surgery under electrostimulation anaesthesia (author's transl)].

Plasma adrenaline, noradrenaline, blood pressure and heart rate were determined in 10 normotensive and 10 hypertensive patients undergoing ophthalmic surgery under electrostimulation anaesthesia. Venous blood samples for the determination of the catecholamines by a spectrofluorometric method were taken 30 min after premedication and 45 min after surgical incision. The catecholamine concentrations showed no significant differences neither by comparing the normotensive patients with the hypertensive patients nor by comparing the values during operation with them after premedication in each group. However, in the hypertensive patients blood pressure showed a higher increase during operation than in the normotensive patients.