Highlights in clinical autonomic neurosciences: Emerging autonomic diagnostics for cardiovascular disorders

摘要

This clinical update will focus on articles about diagnostics for cardiovascular disorders. The first article uses a traditional autonomic technique, short term heart rate variability, to predict which patients going for diagnostic coronary angiography will have significant obstructive coronary artery disease. The second article involves early work on a novel method to measure a surrogate marker for hemodynamic collapse.Five-minute heart rate variability can predict obstructive angiographic coronary disease. Kotecha D, New G, Flather MD, Eccleston D, Pepper J, Krum H. (Melbourne, Australia and London, United Kingdom) Heart. 2012;98:395-401.