Assessment of left ventricular volume by an ambulatory radionuclide monitoring system during head-up tilt in patients with unexplained syncope: Relation to autonomic activity assessed by heart rate variability |
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Authors: | Haruhiko Hosaka Bonpei Takase Katuhiro Kitamura Akimi Uehata Kimio Satomura Kazushige Isojima Shigeru Kosuda Shoichi Kusano Akira Kurita Fumitaka Ohsuzu |
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Affiliation: | Internal Medicine-1, Radiology, and Research Center, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan. |
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Abstract: | BACKGROUND: Decreased left ventricular volume during head-up tilt plays an important role in triggering syncope in patients with neurally mediated syncope. However, precise changes in left ventricular volume during head-up tilt have not been well investigated. This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that the decline in left ventricular volume during tilt could trigger ventricular mechanoreceptor activation. METHODS AND RESULTS: To investigate the mechanisms of tilt-induced syncope, we measured the temporal changes in left ventricular volume, ejection fraction, cardiac output, and heart rate variability indices during head-up tilt in 25 patients with syncope of undetermined etiology. Eleven patients had a cardioinhibitory response (CI group), 7 patients showed a vasodepressor response (VD group), and 7 patients demonstrated a negative response (NG group). Before syncope, ejection fraction increased most in the CI group, the left ventricular end-diastolic volume declined most in the VD group (VD group, -11.0% +/- 3.3%; CI group, -2.8% +/- 4.8%; NG group, -3.4% +/- 2.2%; P <.005), and the high-frequency spectra increased most in the CI group (CI group, 25.0% +/- 21.0%; VD group, -4.1% +/- 11.7%; NG group, -5.3% +/- 12.7%; P <.01). The vasodepressor response was dependent on left ventricular volume, whereas the cardioinhibitory response was related to the vagal activity reflected by high-frequency spectra. CONCLUSIONS: The precise evaluation of left ventricular volume by an ambulatory radionuclide monitoring system combined with a heart rate variability analysis is considered useful for clarifying the pathophysiology of neurally mediated syncope. |
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Keywords: | Head-up tilt test syncope ambulatory radionuclide monitoring heart rate variability |
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