CLINICAL, HEMODYNAMIC AND SYMPATHETIC NEURAL CORRELATES OF HEART-RATE-VARIABILITY IN CONGESTIVE-HEART-FAILURE

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KIENZLE, MG
FERGUSON, DW
BIRKETT, CL
MYERS, GA
BERG, WJ
MARIANO, DJ
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[1] UNIV IOWA,CARDIOVASC RES CTR,CLIN CARDIOVASC PHYSIOL LAB,IOWA CITY,IA 52242
[2] UNIV IOWA,CLIN RES CTR,IOWA CITY,IA 52242
[3] UNIV IOWA,DEPT INTERNAL MED,DIV CARDIOVASC,IOWA CITY,IA 52242
[4] UNIV IOWA,DEPT BIOMED ENGN,IOWA CITY,IA 52242
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10.1016/0002-9149(92)90502-P
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
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Heart rate (HR) variability has long been recognized as a sign of cardiac health. In the presence of heart disease, HR variability decreases, an observation that has been associated with poor prognosis in a number of recent studies. HR variability is particularly altered in congestive heart failure (CHF), a condition associated with a number of typical functional, hemodynamic and neurohumoral alterations. The relation of measurements of HR variability to these abnormalities in patients with heart failure has not been carefully examined. Twenty-three patients (19 men, 4 women, mean age 49 years) with New York Heart Association class II to IV CHF were studied prospectively without cardiac medications; radionuclide ventriculography, right-sided heart catheterization, peroneal microneurography, plasma norepinephrine and 24- to 48-hour ambulatory electrocardiography were performed. Average RR interval and its standard deviation, and HR power spectrum (0 to 0.5, 0.05 to 0.15 and 0.2 to 0.5 Hz) were derived from the ambulatory electrocardiographic recordings and compared with left ventricular ejection fraction, thermodilution caridac output, pulmonary arterial wedge pressure, New York Heart Association class, age, muscle sympathetic nerve activity (peroneal nerve) and norepinephrine level by linear regression. None of the measures of HR variability were significantly related to age, left ventricular ejection fraction, cardiac output or functional classification, whereas the 0.05 to 0.15 and 0.20 to 0.50 Hz components were weakly but significantly related to cardiac output (r = 0.49 and 0.42, p = 0.02 and 0.045, respectively). In contrast, a generally stronger and negative relation was demonstrated between spectral and nonspectral measurements of HR variability, and indicators of sympathoexcitation, muscle sympathetic nerve activity and plasma norepinephrine. This relation was particularly strong with the 0.05 to 0.15 and 0.2 to 0.5 Hz spectral components, and RR standard deviation (r = -0.55 to -0.76, p = 0.04 to 0.001). It is concluded that the decrease in spectral and nonspectral measurements of HR variability that accompanies CHF is not an indicator of the severity of disease, as usually measured clinically, but rather a marker of sympathoexcitation. Therefore, measurements of HR variability may provide noninvasive and unique information regarding neurohumoral maladaptation in heart failure patients.
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