An autonomic dysfunction caused by spinal cord injury may have a significant impact on quality of life, especially in cases of lesions occuring above the sixth spinal segment. In these cases also cardiovascular system control is damaged in a different extent, which is subsequently presented by e.g. persisting bradycardia, heart frequency inadequate reaction to strain and stress or by huge variations of blood pressure values, which the situation complicate even more. The fact that cardiovascular diseases take now the frontmost place in causes of mortality of people with spinal cord injury is another evidence how important this topic is. The main aim of my thesis was to describe impacts of autonomic injury on cardiovascular functions and to try to objectify them using heart rate and blood pressure variability. Twenty-one patients of Motol University Hospitalv Spinal Unit with spinal cord lesion above Th6 segment and ten healthy people as a control group participated in the study. We created suitable conditions for highlighting disrupted cardiovascular functions of urgent spinal patients by modification of the standardized Head Up Tilt Test (HUTT). The heart rate and blood pressure values were continuously monitored by Finapres device before, during and also after verticalization on a tilt table....
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:435652 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Čeloudová, Kateřina |
| Contributors | Kříž, Jiří, Radvanský, Jiří |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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