Assessment of Autonomic Nervous Function with Power Spectral Analysis of Heart Rate Variability in Spinal Cord Injured Patients
Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine
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: 35-41, 2000.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To investigate the autonomic activities in spinal cord injured patients, and to compare their activities according to the level and completeness of spinal cord lesions.METHOD:
Thirty-five spinal cord injured patients and thirty healthy adults participated in this study. The ECG signals were recorded at the tilt angle of 0o and 70o for 5 minutes, and power spectral analysis of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) was done at each angle.RESULTS:
The data reveals two major components such as a low-frequency (LF) component (0.05~0.15 Hz) reflecting primarily sympathetic activities with orthostatic stress, and a high- frequency (HF) component (0.2~0.3 Hz) reflecting parasympathetic activity. In supine position, all frequency components were not significantly different regardless the level and completeness of spinal cord lesion. At 70o head-up tilt position, the LF power and heart rate didn't increase in complete tetraplegia but significantly increased in paraplegia and healthy adults (p<0.05). However, the HF power didn't reveal any differences in four groups by decreasing significantly in all groups.CONCLUSION:
We concluded that there is an abnormal control of autonomic activities especially the sympathetic function in complete tetraiplegia, compared with paraplegia and healthy adults.
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Assunto principal:
Paraplegia
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Quadriplegia
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Medula Espinal
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Traumatismos da Medula Espinal
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Decúbito Dorsal
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Eletrocardiografia
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Coração
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Frequência Cardíaca
Limite:
Adulto
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Humanos
Idioma:
Coreano
Revista:
Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine
Ano de publicação:
2000
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