The effects of brain injury on heart rate variability and the innate immune response in critically ill patients

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 747-755

  Kox, Matthijs ^a   Vrouwenvelder, Maarten Q ^a   Pompe, Jan C ^a   Van Der Hoeven, Johannes G ^a   Pickkers, Peter ^a   Hoedemaekers, Cornelia W ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

brain injury; cytokines; heart rate variability; intracranial pressure; vagus nerve

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VAGUS NERVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN INJURIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VAGUS NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858425597     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2011.2035     Document Type: Article

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