Angehrn W, Schmid E, Althaus F, Niedermann K, Rothlin M
Schweiz Med Wochenschr. 1977 Nov 5;107(44):1593-4.
Intravenous dopamine (4 and 8 microgram/kg/min) causes an increase of hepatic flow and cardiac index, while the ratio hepatic flow:cardiac index remains unchanged. The increase of renal flow after dopamine therefore does not occur at the expense of hepatic flow.