Clinical Guide to Cardiac Autonomic Tests

✍ Scribed by Roger Hainsworth (auth.), Marek Malik (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 425
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Following systematic development of technical aspects and physiological understanding, and clinical applicability of cardiac autonomic testing, this book provides a detailed guide to performing individual autonomic tests in both research and clinical settings.
The book is structured in three parts covering the physiological background of cardiac autonomic regulations, description of technology and interpretation of individual autonomic tests, and applicability of the individual tests under various clinical circumstances and in defined populations of patients.
The book is intended to serve both research and clinical cardiologists as well as research and clinical specialists of other medical fields who use the assessment of cardiac modulations to investigate the autonomic nervous system.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Physiology of the Cardiac Autonomic System....Pages 3-28
Pathophysiology of Cardiac Autonomic Disorders....Pages 29-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Basic Autonomic Tests....Pages 51-65
Tilt Table Testing....Pages 67-99
Autonomic Responses to Blockades and Provocations....Pages 101-148
Short-Term Measurement of Heart Rate Variability....Pages 149-176
Physiological Interpretation of Spectral Components of Heart Rate Variability....Pages 177-193
Long-Term Measurement of Heart Rate Variability....Pages 195-238
Neural Recordings in the Assessment of Cardiac Autonomic Balance....Pages 239-255
Assessment of Baroreflex Sensitivity....Pages 257-281
Front Matter....Pages 283-283
Ageing and Cardiac Autonomic Status....Pages 285-300
Concomitant Therapy and Autonomic Tests....Pages 301-330
Influence of Smoking, Alcohol, Caffeine and Recreational Drugs on Cardiac Autonomic Tests....Pages 331-356
Cardiac Autonomic Syndromes....Pages 357-391
Clinical Perspective....Pages 393-414
Back Matter....Pages 415-423

✦ Subjects

Cardiology; Neurosciences