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Title of the article
Longitudinal Assessment of Autonomic Function during the Acute Phase of Spinal Cord Injury: Use of Low-Frequency Blood Pressure Variability as a Quantitative Measure of Autonomic Function.
List of authors
Vera-Ellen M. Lucci, Jessica A. Inskip, Maureen S. McGrath, Ian Ruiz, Rebekah Lee, Brian K. Kwon, and Victoria E. Claydon.
The journal in which the article is published
Journal of Neurotrauma
doi: 10.1089/neu.2020.7286. Online ahead of print.
PMID: 32940126
Brief summary:
In addition to causing paralysis and loss of sensation, spinal cord injury (SCI) can also damage nerves in the spinal cord (called autonomic nerves) that control subconscious body functions, like the heartbeat and the blood pressure. We used a new approach to quantify the severity and evolution of injury to these autonomic nerves after SCI. This approach was able to identify people with severe autonomic injury and was related to the symptoms of cardiovascular disease that they experienced. This technique can be used to identify those individuals at SCI who are most at risk of cardiovascular problems, and to track changes in function in response to treatment interventions.
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