Agnes Schumann

TL;DR: This complex assessment of autonomic cardiovascular regulation has shown that the parameters tested are stable in the second half of normal pregnancy, and might have the potential to be excellent indicators of pathophysiologic conditions.

TL;DR: The baroreflex response initiated by the low pressure amplitude of the PVC was suppressed in IDC patients due to the augmented potentiation of the first postextrasystolic blood pressure, and the pulsus alternans phenomenon seems to be triggered by a PVC.

TL;DR: It is found that the onset of slow VT was characterized by a significant increase in heart rate, whereas fast VT was triggered during decreased heart rates, compared to the control series.

TL;DR: Heart rate variability analysis was applied to characterize patients suffering from coronary heart disease, dilated cardiomyopathy and patients who had survived an acute myocardial infarction, finding that one specific parameter set was applicable for all tasks, where diseased and healthy subjects have to be distinguished, without significant reduction in performance.

TL;DR: The study shows that the entropy measures discussed here are useful tools to estimate the individual risk of patients suffering from heart failure and demonstrates that the combination of different heart rate variability parameters leads to a better classification of cardiac diseases than single parameters.