Sympathetic cardiac modulation and vascular worsening in arteritis: a case report.
Increases in sympathetic modulation have been associated with increased risk of acute cardiovascular events in some populations. However, whether altered cardiac autonomic modulation is related to peripheral vascular worsening has not yet been described. In this study, we assessed cardiac autonomic modulation by heart rate variability in two patients with arteritis who were followed up for 5 months. Only the subject who presented high cardiac sympathetic modulation had acute vascular worsening. This case report suggests that cardiac autonomic modulation may be related to vascular worsening in patients with arteritis.
School of Physical Education, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
Lausanne B C C
LB
Rodrigues
Alessandra S
AS
Miranda
Aluísio H R A
AH
Lima
Cláudia L M
CL
Forjaz
Nelson
N
Wolosker
Raphael M
RM
Ritti-Dias
D000328:Adult; D001167:Arteritis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006321:Heart / Q000294:innervation* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013565:Sympatholytics / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D013565:Sympatholytics