Cardiovascular Autonomic Response to Orthostatic Stress Under Hypoxia in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury

Autor: Shu-Chun Huang, Shih-Chieh Chang, Kuo-Cheng Liu, Jong-Shyan Wang, Alice M. K. Wong
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: High Altitude Medicine & Biology. 19:201-207
ISSN: 1557-8682
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2017.0154
Popis: Huang, Shu-Chun, Kuo-Cheng Liu, Alice M.K. Wong, Shih-Chieh Chang, and Jong-Shyan Wang. Cardiovascular autonomic response to orthostatic stress under hypoxia in patients with spinal cord injury. High Alt Med Biol. 19:201-207, 2018.Determining whether systemic hypoxia aggravates the severity of autonomic cardiovascular dysfunction in orthostatic stress among patients with spinal cord injuries (SCIs).Twenty-four male patients with chronic SCI whose neurological levels were above T6 were recruited. Twenty-five healthy men were enrolled in the control group. Five-minute supine rest (SR) and head-up tilt (HUT) at 60° were performed in normoxia and after 1 hour, 13.5% fraction of inspired OIn normoxia from SR to HUT, systolic and diastolic BPs declined, SV decreased, and heart rate increased, whereas CO and TPR showed a declining trend in the SCI group. Sympathetic activation and vagal withdrawal were also disclosed in the HRV analysis. In hypoxia, the change of these cardiovascular responses from SR to HUT exhibited no difference to normoxia in the SCI group. No significant difference in arterial desaturation was observed between the two groups (82.9% vs. 80.4%).Cardiovascular adaptation to orthostatic stress is not affected by subacute steady-state hypoxia in chronic SCI patients with neurological levels higher than T6.
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