Prostacyclin and Hypertension

The aim of present-day treatment of hypertension is no longer as the effective reduction of blood pressure, regarded merely but as the ever-increasing application of new therapeutic prin­ ciples to prevent such consequences of hypertension as left heart hypertrophy, medial hypertrophy of the vessels and ar­ teriosclerosis. In this context special attention has been di­ rected to stimulation of the endogenous vasocilator hormonal systems such as the prostaglandins. The great interest in our bo