Philip J Millar1, Hisayoshi Murai1, John S Floras2. 1. From the University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 2. From the University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. john.floras@utoronto.ca.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Muscle sympathetic activation in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) has been attributed, on the basis of multiunit recordings, to attenuated inhibitory feedback from stretch-sensitive cardiopulmonary mechanoreceptors. However, such preparations integrate 2 populations of single units exhibiting directionally opposite firing when atrial pressure is perturbed. We tested the hypothesis that the proportion of single units firing paradoxically when filling pressure increases is augmented in HFrEF. METHODS AND RESULTS: Muscle sympathetic nerve activity and estimated central venous pressure were recorded during nonhypotensive lower body negative pressure (LBNP; -10 mm Hg) and nonhypertensive positive pressure (LBPP; +10 mm Hg) in 11 treated HFrEF (left ventricular ejection fraction 25 ± 6% [mean ± standard deviation]) patients and 14 similarly aged controls. Single-unit muscle sympathetic nerve activity discharge was termed either anticipated, if firing frequency exhibited classic negative-feedback responses, or paradoxical. LBNP and LBPP had no heart rate, stroke volume, or blood pressure effects (P>0.05). Estimated central venous pressure decreased with LBNP (P<0.05), increased with LBPP (P<0.05), and was consistently higher in HFrEF (P<0.05). During LBNP, the ratio of single units with anticipated and paradoxical discharge was similar in HFrEF (18:7) and controls (27:5), whereas LBPP elicited paradoxical reflex excitation in a greater proportion of HFrEF single units (7:18 versus 24:6; P=0.0001). Consequently, LBPP increased mean single-unit firing frequency (P<0.05) and did not inhibit multiunit muscle sympathetic nerve activity of HFrEF subjects (P<0.05 versus controls). Firing of 12/18 HFrEF (but no control) single units increased during both LBPP and LBNP. CONCLUSION: These findings provide the first evidence in human HFrEF for an augmented excitatory cardiopulmonary-muscle sympathetic nerve activity reflex response to increased preload, incorporating 2 distinct single-unit populations with differing firing properties.
BACKGROUND: Muscle sympathetic activation in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) has been attributed, on the basis of multiunit recordings, to attenuated inhibitory feedback from stretch-sensitive cardiopulmonary mechanoreceptors. However, such preparations integrate 2 populations of single units exhibiting directionally opposite firing when atrial pressure is perturbed. We tested the hypothesis that the proportion of single units firing paradoxically when filling pressure increases is augmented in HFrEF. METHODS AND RESULTS: Muscle sympathetic nerve activity and estimated central venous pressure were recorded during nonhypotensive lower body negative pressure (LBNP; -10 mm Hg) and nonhypertensive positive pressure (LBPP; +10 mm Hg) in 11 treated HFrEF (left ventricular ejection fraction 25 ± 6% [mean ± standard deviation]) patients and 14 similarly aged controls. Single-unit muscle sympathetic nerve activity discharge was termed either anticipated, if firing frequency exhibited classic negative-feedback responses, or paradoxical. LBNP and LBPP had no heart rate, stroke volume, or blood pressure effects (P>0.05). Estimated central venous pressure decreased with LBNP (P<0.05), increased with LBPP (P<0.05), and was consistently higher in HFrEF (P<0.05). During LBNP, the ratio of single units with anticipated and paradoxical discharge was similar in HFrEF (18:7) and controls (27:5), whereas LBPP elicited paradoxical reflex excitation in a greater proportion of HFrEF single units (7:18 versus 24:6; P=0.0001). Consequently, LBPP increased mean single-unit firing frequency (P<0.05) and did not inhibit multiunit muscle sympathetic nerve activity of HFrEF subjects (P<0.05 versus controls). Firing of 12/18 HFrEF (but no control) single units increased during both LBPP and LBNP. CONCLUSION: These findings provide the first evidence in human HFrEF for an augmented excitatory cardiopulmonary-muscle sympathetic nerve activity reflex response to increased preload, incorporating 2 distinct single-unit populations with differing firing properties.
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