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Auton Neurosci ; 244: 103051, 2023 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36493585

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Heart rate variability (HRV) may provide an estimation of the autonomous nervous system (ANS) integrity in critically ill patients. Disturbances of cerebral autoregulation (CAR) may share common pathways of ANS dysfunction. AIM: To explore whether changes in HRV and CAR index correlate in critically ill septic patients. METHODS: Prospectively collected data on septic adult (> 18 years) patients admitted into a mixed Intensive Care between February 2016 and August 2019 with a recorded transcranial doppler CAR assessment. CAR was assessed calculating the Pearson's correlation coefficient (i.e. mean flow index, Mxa) between the left middle cerebral artery flow velocity (FV), insonated with a 2-MHz probe, and invasive blood pressure (BP) signal, both recorded simultaneously through a Doppler Box (DWL, Germany). MATLAB software was used for CAR assessment using a validated script; a Mxa >0.3 was considered as impaired CAR. HRV was assessed during the same time period using a specific software (Kubios HRV 3.2.0) and analyzed in both time-domain and frequency domain methods. Correlation between HRV-derived variables and Mxa were assessed using the Spearman's coefficient. RESULTS: A total of 141 septic patients was studied; median Mxa was 0.35 [0.13-0.60], with 77 (54.6 %) patients having an impaired CAR. Mxa had a significant although weak correlation with HRV time domain (SDNN, r = 0.17, p = 0.04; RMSSD, r = 0.18, p = 0.03; NN50, r = 0.23, p = 0.006; pNN50, r = 0.23, p = 0.007), frequency domain (FFT-HF, r = 0.21; p = 0.01; AR-HF, r = 0.19; p = 0.02), and non-linear domain (SD1, r = 0.18, p = 0.03) parameters. Impaired CAR patients had also all of these HRV-derived parameters higher than those with intact CAR. CONCLUSIONS: In this exploratory study, a potential association of ANS dysfunction and impaired CAR during sepsis was observed.


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Critical Illness , Sepsis , Adult , Humans , Heart Rate/physiology , Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial , Homeostasis/physiology
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J Infect Dis ; 224(1): 21-30, 2021 07 02.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33668070

ABSTRACT

The differentiation between influenza and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) could constitute a diagnostic challenge during the ongoing winter owing to their clinical similitude. Thus, novel biomarkers are required to enable making this distinction. Here, we evaluated whether the surfactant protein D (SP-D), a collectin produced at the alveolar epithelium with known immune properties, was useful to differentiate pandemic influenza A(H1N1) from COVID-19 in critically ill patients. Our results revealed high serum SP-D levels in patients with severe pandemic influenza but not those with COVID-19. This finding was validated in a separate cohort of mechanically ventilated patients with COVID-19 who also showed low plasma SP-D levels. However, plasma SP-D levels did not distinguish seasonal influenza from COVID-19 in mild-to-moderate disease. Finally, we found that high serum SP-D levels were associated with death and renal failure among severe pandemic influenza cases. Thus, our studies have identified SP-D as a unique biomarker expressed during severe pandemic influenza but not COVID-19.


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COVID-19/genetics , Gene Expression , Host-Pathogen Interactions/genetics , Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype , Influenza, Human/genetics , Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein D/genetics , SARS-CoV-2 , Adult , Aged , Biomarkers , COVID-19/blood , COVID-19/diagnosis , COVID-19/virology , Coinfection , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Female , Humans , Influenza, Human/diagnosis , Influenza, Human/virology , Male , Middle Aged , Prognosis , Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein D/blood , Severity of Illness Index , Symptom Assessment , Young Adult
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