Physical performance of patients with numerous psychosomatic complaints suggestive of hyperventilation

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1314-1319

  Troosters, T ^a   Verstraete, A ^a   Ramon, K ^a   Schepers, R ^a,b   Gosselink, R ^a   Decramer, M ^a,b   Van De Woestijne, K P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Exercise capacity; Hyperventilation syndrome; Hypocapnia; Muscle strength; Ventilatory pattern

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BREATHING PATTERN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; TIDAL VOLUME;

EID: 0033386724     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.99.14613149     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Da Costa JM. On irritable heart; a clinical study of functional cardiac disorder and its consequences. Am J Med Sci 1871; 61: 17-52.
2. Lewis T. Report on neurocirculatory asthenia and its management. Military Surgeon 1918; 42: 409-426.
3. Soley MH, Shock NW. The etiology of effort syndrome. Am J Med Sci 1928; 196: 840-851.
4. Wood P. Da Costa's syndrome (or effort syndrome). BMJ 1941; i: 805-811.
5. Friedman M. Functional cardiovascular disease. Baltimore, USA, Williams and Wilkins, 1947; pp. 266.
6. Kinnula VL, Sovijärvi ARA. Elevated ventilatory equivalents during exercise in patients with hyperventilation syndrome. Respiration 1993; 60: 273-278.
7. Chambers JB, Kiff PJ, Gardner WN, Jackson G, Bass C. Value of measuring end tidal partial pressure of carbon dioxide as an adjunct to treadmill exercise testing. BMJ 1988; 296: 1281-1285.
8. Bass C, Chambers JB, Kiff P, Cooper D, Gardner WN. Panic anxiety and hyperventilation in patients with chest pain. A controlled study. Quat J Med 1988; 69: 949-959.
9. Van Dixhoorn J, Duivenvoorden HJ. Efficacy of Nijmegen questionnaire in recognition of the hyperventilation syndrome. J Psychosom Res 1985; 29: 199-206.
10. Spielberger CD, Gorsuch RL, Luchene RE. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) test manual for form X. Palo Alto, CA, USA, Consulting Psychologist Press, 1970.
11. Quanjer Ph. Standardized lung function testing. Bull Eur Physiopath Respir 1983; 19(Suppl. 5): 1-91.
12. Han JN, Stegen K, Schepers R, Van den Bergh O, Van de Woestijne KP. Subjective symptoms and breathing pattern at rest and following hyperventilation in anxiety and somatoform disorders. J Psychosom Res 1998; 45: 519-532.
13. Decramer M, Lacquet LM, Fagard R, Rogiers P. Corticosteroids contribute to muscle weakness in chronic airflow obstruction. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1995; 152: 2021-2031.
14. Mathiowetz V, Dove M, Kashman N, Rogers S. Grip and pinch strength normative data for adults. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1985; 66: 69-72.
15. Black LF, Hyatt RE. Maximal respiratory pressures: normal values and relationships to age and sex. Am Rev Respir Dis 1969; 9: 696-702.
16. Rochester D, Arora NS. Respiratory muscle failure. Med Clin North Am 1983; 67: 573-598.
17. Jones NL, Makrides L, Hitchcock C, Chypchar T, McCartney N. Normal standards for an incremental progressive cycle ergometer test. Am Rev Respir Dis 1985; 131: 700-708.
18. Folgering H, Snik A. Hyperventilation syndrome and muscle fatigue. J Psychosom Res 1988; 32: 165-171.
19. Cohen ME, White PD. Studies of breathing, pulmonary ventilation and subjective awareness of shortness of breath (dyspnea) in neurocirculatory asthenia, effort syndrome, anxiety neurosis. J Clin Invest 1947; 26: 520-529.
20. Stringer W, Casaburi R, Wasserman K. Acid-base regulation during exercise and recovery in humans. J Appl Physiol 1992; 72: 954-961.
21. O'Neill AV, Johnson DC. Transition from exercise to rest. Ventilatory and arterial blood gas responses. Chest 1991; 99: 1145-1150.
22. Han JN, Stegen K, Simkens K, et al. Unsteadiness of breathing in patients with hyperventilation syndrome and anxiety disorders. Eur Respir J 1997; 10: 167-176.
23. Hornsveld HK, Garssen B, Fiedeldij Dop MJC, van Spiegel PI, de Haes JCJM. Double-blind placebo-controlled study of the hyerventilation provocation test and the validity of the hyperventilation syndrome. Lancet 1996; 348: 154-158.
24. Wood P. Aetiology of Da Costa's syndrome. BMJ 1941; i: 845-851.
25. Ferguson A, Addington WW, Gaensler EA. Dyspnea and bronchospasm from inappropriate post exercise hyperventilation. Ann Intern Med 1969; 71: 1063-1072.
26. 2-enriched air inhalation. Behav Res Ther 1995; 5: 517-527.