Patients with continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices provide insight in human baroreflex physiology

Hypertension

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 849-855

  Tank, Jens ^a   Heusser, Karsten ^a   Malehsa, Doris ^a   Hegemann, Katrin ^a   Haufe, Sven ^a   Brinkmann, Julia ^a   Tegtbur, Uwe ^a   Diedrich, André ^b   Bara, Christoph ^a   Jordan, Jens ^a   Strüber, Martin ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

baroreflex sensitivity; continuous flow device; left ventricular assist device; muscle sympathetic nerve activity; pulse pressure

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEAD TILTING; HEART CYCLE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERPNEA; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MALE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ADULT; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RESPIRATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84865446920     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.112.198630     Document Type: Article

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