Cardiovascular dysautonomia in Achalasia Patients: Blood pressure and heart rate variability alterations.
Achalasia is a disease characterized by the inability to relax the esophageal sphincter due to a degeneration of the parasympathetic ganglion cells located in the wall of the thoracic esophagus. Achalasia has been associated with extraesophageal dysmotility, suggesting alterations of the autonomic n...
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| author | Ana Leonor Rivera Bruno Estañol Julio J Macias-Gallardo Guillermo Delgado-Garcia Ruben Fossion Alejandro Frank Gonzalo M Torres-Villalobos |
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| description | Achalasia is a disease characterized by the inability to relax the esophageal sphincter due to a degeneration of the parasympathetic ganglion cells located in the wall of the thoracic esophagus. Achalasia has been associated with extraesophageal dysmotility, suggesting alterations of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) that extend beyond the esophagus. The purpose of the present contribution is to investigate whether achalasia may be interpreted as the esophageal manifestation of a more generalized disturbance of the ANS which includes alterations of heart rate and/or blood pressure. Therefore simultaneous non-invasive records of the heart inter-beat intervals (IBI) and beat-to-beat systolic blood pressure (SBP) of 14 patients (9 female, 5 male) with achalasia were compared with the records of 34 rigorously screened healthy control subjects (17 female, 17 male) in three different conditions: supine, standing up, and controlled breathing at 0.1 Hz, using a variety of measures in the time and spectral domains. Significant differences in heart rate variability (HRV) and blood pressure variability (BPV) were observed which seem to be due to cardiovagal damage to the heart, i.e., a failure of the ANS, as expected according to our hypothesis. This non-invasive methodology can be employed as an auxiliary clinical protocol to study etiology and evolution of achalasia, and other pathologies that damage ANS. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-65998ada857d488e9221aa9c8bbf86822025-08-20T02:17:57ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032021-01-01163e024810610.1371/journal.pone.0248106Cardiovascular dysautonomia in Achalasia Patients: Blood pressure and heart rate variability alterations.Ana Leonor RiveraBruno EstañolJulio J Macias-GallardoGuillermo Delgado-GarciaRuben FossionAlejandro FrankGonzalo M Torres-VillalobosAchalasia is a disease characterized by the inability to relax the esophageal sphincter due to a degeneration of the parasympathetic ganglion cells located in the wall of the thoracic esophagus. Achalasia has been associated with extraesophageal dysmotility, suggesting alterations of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) that extend beyond the esophagus. The purpose of the present contribution is to investigate whether achalasia may be interpreted as the esophageal manifestation of a more generalized disturbance of the ANS which includes alterations of heart rate and/or blood pressure. Therefore simultaneous non-invasive records of the heart inter-beat intervals (IBI) and beat-to-beat systolic blood pressure (SBP) of 14 patients (9 female, 5 male) with achalasia were compared with the records of 34 rigorously screened healthy control subjects (17 female, 17 male) in three different conditions: supine, standing up, and controlled breathing at 0.1 Hz, using a variety of measures in the time and spectral domains. Significant differences in heart rate variability (HRV) and blood pressure variability (BPV) were observed which seem to be due to cardiovagal damage to the heart, i.e., a failure of the ANS, as expected according to our hypothesis. This non-invasive methodology can be employed as an auxiliary clinical protocol to study etiology and evolution of achalasia, and other pathologies that damage ANS.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0248106&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Ana Leonor Rivera Bruno Estañol Julio J Macias-Gallardo Guillermo Delgado-Garcia Ruben Fossion Alejandro Frank Gonzalo M Torres-Villalobos Cardiovascular dysautonomia in Achalasia Patients: Blood pressure and heart rate variability alterations. PLoS ONE |
| title | Cardiovascular dysautonomia in Achalasia Patients: Blood pressure and heart rate variability alterations. |
| title_full | Cardiovascular dysautonomia in Achalasia Patients: Blood pressure and heart rate variability alterations. |
| title_fullStr | Cardiovascular dysautonomia in Achalasia Patients: Blood pressure and heart rate variability alterations. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cardiovascular dysautonomia in Achalasia Patients: Blood pressure and heart rate variability alterations. |
| title_short | Cardiovascular dysautonomia in Achalasia Patients: Blood pressure and heart rate variability alterations. |
| title_sort | cardiovascular dysautonomia in achalasia patients blood pressure and heart rate variability alterations |
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