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Dynamics of muscle sympathetic nerve activity in advanced heart failure patients. 1996

A H Nguyen, and A Garfinkel, and D O Walter, and M A Hamilton, and G C Fonarow, and J D Moriguchi, and A Hage, and J N Weiss, and H R Middlekauff
Division of Cardiology, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine 90095, USA.

Muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) is increased in patients with heart failure compared with healthy subjects. We applied spectral and correlation techniques to determine if qualitative as well as quantitative differences in MSNA differentiate heart failure patients from healthy subjects. We recorded MSNA, heart rate, and respiration in 11 heart failure patients and 10 healthy humans. Our results are as follows. 1) Statistically significant low-frequency modulation of MSNA at 0.029 +/- 0.002 Hz (mean +/- SE; range 0.026-0.038 Hz) was found in 10 of 11 heart failure patients but in only 2 of 10 healthy controls (differences between groups, P < 0.01; chi 2 test). 2) Heart rate and respiration also demonstrated significant low-frequency modulation in a similar range. 3) Spectral and correlation techniques revealed that low-frequency modulation of MSNA was highly correlated with low-frequency modulation of respiration in heart failure patients, but not in healthy subjects. In contrast, low-frequency modulation of MSNA did not correlate well with low-frequency modulation of heart rate. In summary, low-frequency modulation of respiration is coupled to low-frequency modulation of MSNA in heart failure patients, but not in normal subjects. We speculate that this low-frequency modulation of respiration may represent subclinical Cheyne-Stokes breathing, which has marked qualitative effects on MSNA in patients with heart failure.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D009132 Muscles Contractile tissue that produces movement in animals. Muscle Tissue,Muscle,Muscle Tissues,Tissue, Muscle,Tissues, Muscle
D010507 Periodicity The tendency of a phenomenon to recur at regular intervals; in biological systems, the recurrence of certain activities (including hormonal, cellular, neural) may be annual, seasonal, monthly, daily, or more frequently (ultradian). Cyclicity,Rhythmicity,Biological Rhythms,Bioperiodicity,Biorhythms,Biological Rhythm,Bioperiodicities,Biorhythm,Cyclicities,Periodicities,Rhythm, Biological,Rhythmicities,Rhythms, Biological
D012119 Respiration The act of breathing with the LUNGS, consisting of INHALATION, or the taking into the lungs of the ambient air, and of EXHALATION, or the expelling of the modified air which contains more CARBON DIOXIDE than the air taken in (Blakiston's Gould Medical Dictionary, 4th ed.). This does not include tissue respiration ( Breathing
D002303 Cardiac Output, Low A state of subnormal or depressed cardiac output at rest or during stress. It is a characteristic of CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES, including congenital, valvular, rheumatic, hypertensive, coronary, and cardiomyopathic. The serious form of low cardiac output is characterized by marked reduction in STROKE VOLUME, and systemic vasoconstriction resulting in cold, pale, and sometimes cyanotic extremities. Low Cardiac Output,Low Cardiac Output Syndrome,Output, Low Cardiac
D004562 Electrocardiography Recording of the moment-to-moment electromotive forces of the HEART as projected onto various sites on the body's surface, delineated as a scalar function of time. The recording is monitored by a tracing on slow moving chart paper or by observing it on a cardioscope, which is a CATHODE RAY TUBE DISPLAY. 12-Lead ECG,12-Lead EKG,12-Lead Electrocardiography,Cardiography,ECG,EKG,Electrocardiogram,Electrocardiograph,12 Lead ECG,12 Lead EKG,12 Lead Electrocardiography,12-Lead ECGs,12-Lead EKGs,12-Lead Electrocardiographies,Cardiographies,ECG, 12-Lead,EKG, 12-Lead,Electrocardiograms,Electrocardiographies, 12-Lead,Electrocardiographs,Electrocardiography, 12-Lead
D005260 Female Females
D006321 Heart The hollow, muscular organ that maintains the circulation of the blood. Hearts
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man

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