Abstract:
BACKGROUND:Parasympathetic dysautonomia is an established feature of advanced Chagas cardiomyopathy. However, in the absence of cardiac involvement, the presence of vagal dysfunction remains controversial. In a cross-sectional study, we compared patients with Chagas disease without cardiac involvement and healthy individuals by three different methods to determine whether vagal dysfunction is present in the early phase of Chagas disease. METHODS:Sixty-one patients with Chagas disease without cardiac involvement and 38 controls were submitted to respiratory sinus arrhythmia test and 24-hour Holter monitoring. Vagal heart influences were assessed by the expiratory/inspiratory (E/I) ratio, time-domain indexes of heart rate variability (HRV), and by the quantification of a 3-dimensional return map. RESULTS:The two groups were comparable in terms of left ventricular ejection fraction and left ventricular end-diastolic dimension. Compared with the control group, patients with Chagas disease had significantly lower values of the E/I ratio (mean +/- SD: 1.38 +/- 0.02 and 1.25 +/- 0.02, P <.004) and short-term indexes of HRV (median [interquartile range]-rMSSD: 23 [18-27] and 17 [13-23], P =.00; pNN50: 11 [7-17] and 6 [2-12], P =.00). P(3), a beat-to-beat HRV index derived from the 3-dimensional return map, also was significantly reduced in the Chagas disease group (mean +/- SD: 118 +/- 5 vs 100 +/- 4, P =.00). None of these indexes of vagal heart control were significantly correlated with left ventricular function or to the presence of esophageal radiologic abnormalities. CONCLUSION:Parasympathetic dysautonomia is an independent and early phenomenon in Chagas disease and may precede left ventricular systolic dysfunction.
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Am Heart Jjournal_title
American heart journalauthors
Ribeiro AL,Moraes RS,Ribeiro JP,Ferlin EL,Torres RM,Oliveira E,Rocha MOdoi
10.1067/mhj.2001.111406subject
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2001-02-01 00:00:00pages
260-5issue
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0002-8703issn
1097-6744pii
S000287030163552Xjournal_volume
141pub_type
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