Reduced systemic vascular resistance in healthy volunteers with presyncopal symptoms during a nitrate-stimulated tilt-table test |
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Authors: | Tahvanainen Anna Koskela Jenni Leskinen Miia Ilveskoski Erkki Nordhausen Klaus Kähönen Mika Kööbi Tiit Mustonen Jukka Pörsti Ilkka |
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Institution: | 1Department of Internal Medicine, Tampere, Finland;2Department of Cardiology, Heart Center, Tampere, Finland;3Tampere School of Public Health, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland;4Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere, Finland;5Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere, Finland;6Department of Internal Medicine, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland |
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Abstract: | AIMSThe mechanism of nitrate-induced syncope remains controversial. We examined the haemodynamic changes in healthy volunteers during nitroglycerin-stimulated tilt-table test.METHODSContinuous radial pulse wave analysis, whole-body impedance cardiography and plethysmographic finger blood pressure were recorded in a supine position and during head-up tilt in 21 subjects with presyncopal symptoms (6 male/15 female, age 43 ± 3 years) after 0.25 mg sublingual nitroglycerin and 21 control subjects (6 male/15 female, age 43 ± 2 years). The drug was administered in the supine position and a passive head-up tilt followed 5 min later. Additionally, nitroglycerin was only administered during head-up tilt in 19 subjects and the haemodynamics were recorded.RESULTSSupine and upright haemodynamics were similar before nitroglycerin administration in the two groups. During the nitroglycerin-stimulated tilt test, aortic and radial mean blood pressure decreased significantly more in the presyncope group when compared with the controls (P = 0.0006 and P = 0.0004, respectively). The decreases in systemic vascular resistance (P = 0.0008) and heart rate (P = 0.002), and increase in aortic reflection time (P = 0.0002) were greater in the presyncope group, while the change in cardiac index was not different between the groups (P = 0.14). If nitroglycerin was administered during the upright tilt and not in supine position, the haemodynamic changes were quite corresponding.CONCLUSIONSPresyncopal symptoms during nitrate-stimulated tilt test were explained by decreased systemic vascular resistance and increased aortic reflection time, while cardiac output remained unchanged. These findings indicated reduced arterial resistance in nitroglycerin-induced presyncope. |
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Keywords: | impedance cardiography nitroglycerine-stimulated tilt-table test presyncope pulse wave analysis systemic vascular resistance |
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