Journal
CARDIOVASCULAR ENGINEERING
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 60-71Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10558-007-9045-5
Keywords
spontaneous oscillations; instantaneous phase shift; Valsalva maneuver; baseline resting condition; stroke; hypertension; traumatic brain injury
Funding
- Medical Research Council [G0001237, G0600986, G9439390] Funding Source: Medline
- NCRR NIH HHS [P41 RR013622, P41 RR013622-076028] Funding Source: Medline
- NIA NIH HHS [P60 AG008812-15S2, P01 AG004390, P01 AG004390-250015, T32 AG023480, P60 AG008812] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [R41 NS053128, R01 NS045745, R01 NS045745-04, R41 NS053128-01A2] Funding Source: Medline
- MRC [G9439390, G0001237, G0600986] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0001237, G9439390, G0600986] Funding Source: researchfish
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Cerebral autoregulation ( CA) is an most important mechanism responsible for the relatively constant blood flow supply to brain when cerebral perfusion pressure varies. Its assessment in nonacute cases has been relied on the quantification of the relationship between noninvasive beat-to-beat blood pressure ( BP) and blood flow velocity (BFV). To overcome the nonstationary nature of physiological signals such as BP and BFV, a computational method called multimodal pressure-flow (MMPF) analysis was recently developed to study the nonlinear BP-BFV relationship during the Valsalva maneuver (VM). The present study aimed to determine (i) whether this method can estimate autoregulation from spontaneous BP and BFV fluctuations during baseline rest conditions; (ii) whether there is any difference between the MMPF measures of autoregulation based on intra-arterial BP (ABP) and based on cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP); and (iii) whether the MMPF method provides reproducible and reliable measure for noninvasive assessment of autoregulation. To achieve these aims, we analyzed data from existing databases including: ( i) ABP and BFV of 12 healthy control, 10 hypertensive, and 10 stroke subjects during baseline resting conditions and during the Valsalva maneuver, and ( ii) ABP, CPP, and BFV of 30 patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) who were being paralyzed, sedated, and ventilated. We showed that autoregulation in healthy control subjects can be characterized by specific phase shifts between BP and BFV oscillations during the Valsalva maneuver, and the BP-BFV phase shifts were reduced in hypertensive and stroke subjects (P < 0.01), indicating impaired autoregulation. Similar results were found during baseline condition from spontaneous BP and BFV oscillations. The BP-BFV phase shifts obtained during baseline and during VM were highly correlated (R > 0.8, P < 0.0001), showing no statistical difference (paired-t test P > 0.47). In TBI patients there were strong correlations between phases of ABP and CPP oscillations (R = 0.99, P < 0.0001) and, thus, between ABP-BFV and CPP-BFV phase shifts (P < 0.0001, R = 0.76). By repeating the MMPF 4 times on data of TBI subjects, each time on a selected cycle of spontaneous BP and BFV oscillations, we showed that MMPF had better reproducibility than traditional autoregulation index. These results indicate that the MMPF method, based on instantaneous phase relationships between cerebral blood flow velocity and peripheral blood pressure, has better performance than the traditional standard method, and can reliably assess cerebral autoregulation dynamics from ambulatory blood pressure and cerebral blood flow during supine rest conditions.
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