Respiratory sinus dysrhythmia persists in transplanted human hearts following autonomic blockade

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 322-330

  Slovut, David P ^a,c,d   Wenstrom, John C ^d   Moeckel, Richard B ^b   Wilson, Robert F ^a   Osborn, John W ^a   Abrams, Jerome H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Human heart transplantation; Respiratory sinus dysrhythmia

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; ESMOLOL;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PULSE PRESSURE; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SINUS NODE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORAX PRESSURE; TIDAL VOLUME;

EID: 0031920892     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1998.tb02358.x     Document Type: Article

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