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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2014

Altered oscillatory cerebral blood flow velocity and autoregulation in postural tachycardia syndrome.

Marvin S Medow, Andrew T Del Pozzi, Zachary R Messer, Courtney Terilli, Julian M Stewart

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marvin S MedowDepartments of Pediatrics, The Center for Hypotension, New York Medical College Valhalla, NY, USA ; Departments of Physiology, New York Medical College Valhalla, NY, USA.
Andrew T Del PozziDepartments of Pediatrics, The Center for Hypotension, New York Medical College Valhalla, NY, USA.
Zachary R MesserDepartments of Pediatrics, The Center for Hypotension, New York Medical College Valhalla, NY, USA.
Courtney TerilliDepartments of Pediatrics, The Center for Hypotension, New York Medical College Valhalla, NY, USA.
Julian M StewartDepartments of Pediatrics, The Center for Hypotension, New York Medical College Valhalla, NY, USA ; Departments of Physiology, New York Medical College Valhalla, NY, USA.
New York Medical College · US

Funding

Local Vasoconstriction in Postural Tachycardia SyndromeR01HL074873 · NHLBI · NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE · PI STEWART, JULIAN M · 2004 to 2013
$3.4M
Mechanisms of Vasovagal SyncopeR01HL112736 · NHLBI · NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE · PI STEWART, JULIAN M · 2013 to 2016
$2.1M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL074873NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL112736
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Decreased upright cerebral blood flow (CBF) with hyperpnea and hypocapnia is seen in a minority of patients with postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS). More often, CBF is not decreased despite upright neurocognitive dysfunction. This may result from time-dependent changes in CBF. We hypothesized that increased oscillations in CBF occurs in POTS (N = 12) compared to healthy controls (N = 9), and tested by measuring CBF velocity (CBFv) by transcranial Doppler ultrasound of the middle cerebral artery, mean arterial pressure (MAP) and related parameters, supine and during 70° upright tilt. Autospectra for mean CBFv and MAP, and transfer function analysis were obtained over the frequency range of 0.0078-0.4 Hz. Upright HR was increased in POTS (125 ± 8 vs. 86 ± 2 bpm), as was diastolic BP (74 ± 3 vs. 65 ± 3 mmHg) compared to control, while peripheral resistance, cardiac output, and mean CBFv increased similarly with tilt. Upright BP variability (BPV), low frequency (LF) power (0.04-0.13 Hz), and peak frequency of BPV were increased in POTS (24.3 ± 4.1, and 18.4 ± 4.1 mmHg(2)/Hz at 0.091 Hz vs. 11.8 ± 3.3, and 8.8 ± 2 mmHg(2)/Hz c at 0.071 Hz), as was upright overall CBFv variability, low frequency power and peak frequency of CBFv variability (29.3 ± 4.7, and 22.1 ± 2.7 [cm/s](2)/Hz at.092 Hz vs. 14.7 ± 2.6, and 6.7 ± 1.2 [cm/s](2)/Hz at 0.077Hz). Autospectra were sharply peaked in POTS. LF phase was decreased in POTS (-14 ± 4 vs. -25 ± 10 degrees) while upright. LF gain was increased (1.51 ± 0.09 vs. 0.86 ± 0.12 [cm/s]/ mmHg) while coherence was increased (0.96 ± 0.01 vs. 0.80 ± 0.04). Increased oscillatory BP in upright POTS patients is closely coupled to oscillatory CBFv over a narrow bandwidth corresponding to the Mayer wave frequency. Therefore combined increased oscillatory BP and increased LF gain markedly increases CBFv oscillations in a narrow bandwidth. This close coupling of CBF to MAP indicates impaired cerebral autoregulation that may underlie upright neurocognitive dysfunction in POTS.

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cerebral blood flowmean arterial pressure autospectramean cerebral blood flow velocity autospectrapostural tachycardia syndrometransfer function analysisvasomotion

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PMID25002851
PMCPMC4067089
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