TITLE:
Heart Rate Variability: On the Importance to Perform HRV Analysis in Subjects Affected from Muscular Dystrophy
AUTHORS:
Elio Conte, Ken Ware, Riccardo Marvulli, Giancarlo Ianieri, Marisa Megna, Sergio Conte, Leonardo Mendolicchio, Enrico Pierangeli
KEYWORDS:
ANS Dysfunction in Muscular Dystrophy, HRV Analysis, Atrial Fibrillation
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases,
Vol.5 No.6,
June
10,
2015
ABSTRACT: This paper discusses a case of muscular dystrophy on which it has been performed HRV analysis. The results that we obtain evidence that the subject delineates a net ANS dysfunction. All the basic parameters relating standard time and frequency domain of HRV analysis result profoundly altered. Examination by Poicaré plot evidences in particular that the subject has an atrial fibrillation. Non linear indexes ApEn and Samp En evidence the very high condition of risk of the subject. The merging indication is for the cardiologist and scholars in cardiovascular disease to perform always ANS investigation in subjects in case of muscular dystrophy. After the NPT treatment, the subject obtains a net improvement.