Beta
56657

Assessment of Heart Rate Variability in Heart Failure Patients

Article

Last updated: 30 Jan 2023

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Background: Heart rate variability (HRV) depicts the functional status of the autonomic nervous system and its effects on sinus node. Objective: The aim of the study was to analyze heart rate variability (HRV) parameters in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and to assess correlation between HRV parameters and functional capacity of the study group (assessed by NYHA class and 6 MWT). Subjects and Methods: This study included a total of 80 patients with chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, attending at the Outpatient Clinic, Department of Cardiology, Al-Azhar (Al-Hussein) University Hospital. This study was conducted between December 2018 to October 2019. Patients were divided into four groups according to New York Heart association functional classification (NYHA). All patients were subjected to cardiac tests mainly ECGs, Echocardiography and 24 hours Holter monitoring. Results: High statistically significant difference was found between the four groups regarding HRV parameters (SDNN rMSSD, pNN50 and LF/HF ratio) and 6MWT duration. There was positive correlation between premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) burden and ANS indices (LF/HF). Conclusion: Disturbed cardiac autonomic function was found in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). HRV parameters have strong positive correlation with NYHA functional class and with 6MWT distance in patients with HF. Impaired autonomic function was associated with higher PVCs burden even in patients with same NYHA class.

DOI

10.21608/ejhm.2019.56657

Keywords

Heart Rate Variability, Heart Failure Patients

Authors

First Name

Abdelaziz Rizk

Last Name

Hassan

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed Sami

Last Name

Abdelsamea

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Hany Khamees Rashed

Last Name

Elhelw

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

hanyelhelw27@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

77

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

8489

Issue Date

2019-10-01

Receive Date

2019-11-03

Publish Date

2019-10-01

Page Start

5,338

Page End

5,344

Print ISSN

1687-2002

Online ISSN

2090-7125

Link

https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/article_56657.html

Detail API

https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=56657

Order

6

Type

Original Article

Type Code

606

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine

Publication Link

https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

-

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023