Links To And Excerpts From “Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction: JACC Focus Seminar”

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Posted on January 17, 2022 by Tom Wade MD.

In this post, I link to and excerpt from Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction: JACC Focus Seminar [PubMed Abstract] [Full-Text HTML] [Full-Text PDF]. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019 Mar 19; 73(10): 1189–1206.

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All that follows is from the above resource.

Abstract

Autonomic nervous system control of the heart is a dynamic process in both health and disease. A multilevel neural network is responsible for control of chronotropy, lusitropy, dromotropy, and inotropy. Intrinsic autonomic dysfunction arises from diseases that directly affect the autonomic nerves, such as diabetes mellitus and the syndromes of primary autonomic failure. Extrinsic autonomic dysfunction reflects the changes in autonomic function that are secondarily induced by cardiac or other disease. An array of tests interrogate various aspects of cardiac autonomic control in either resting conditions or with physiological perturbations from resting conditions. The prognostic significance of these assessments have been well established. Clinical usefulness has not been established, and the precise mechanistic link to mortality is less well established. Further efforts are required to develop optimal approaches to delineate cardiac autonomic dysfunction and its adverse effects to develop tools that can be used to guide clinical decision-making.

Keywords: arrhythmia, autonomic, heart failure, myocardial infarction
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