TY - JOUR
T1 - Cardiac systolic and diastolic function during whole body heat stress
AU - Brothers, R. Matthew
AU - Bhella, Paul S.
AU - Shibata, Shigeki
AU - Wingo, Jonathan E.
AU - Levine, Benjamin D.
AU - Crandall, Craig G.
PY - 2009/4
Y1 - 2009/4
N2 - During a whole body heat stress, stroke volume is either maintained or slightly elevated despite reduced ventricular filling pressures and central blood volume, suggestive of improved cardiac diastolic and/or systolic function. Heat stress improves cardiac systolic and diastolic function in patients with congestive heart failure, although it remains unknown whether similar responses occur in healthy individuals, which is the hypothesis to be tested. Nine male volunteers underwent a whole body heat stress. Echocardiographic indexes of diastolic and systolic function were performed following a supine resting period, and again following an increase in internal temperature of ∼1.0°C via passive heat stress. Despite previous reports of heat stress-induced decreases in ventricular filling pressures and central blood volume, no changes in indexes of diastolic function were identified during heating [i.e., unchanged early diastolic mitral annular tissue velocity (E'), mitral inflow during the early diastolic phase (E), the E/E' ratio, and isovolumetric relaxation time]. Heat stress increased late diastolic septal (P = 0.03) and lateral (P = 0.01) mitral annular tissue velocities (A'), mitral inflow velocity during atrial contraction (P > 0.001), and the relative contribution of atrial contraction to left ventricular filling during diastole (P = 0.01), all indicative of improved atrial systolic function. Furthermore, indexes of ventricular systolic function were increased by heat stress [i.e., increased septal (P = 0.001) and lateral (P = 0.01) mitral annular systolic velocities and isovolumic acceleration at the septal (P = 0.03) and lateral (P > 0.001) mitral annulus]. These data are suggestive of improved atrial and ventricular systolic function by the heat stress. Together these data support previous findings, which used the less precise measure of ejection fraction, that heat stress improves indexes of systolic
AB - During a whole body heat stress, stroke volume is either maintained or slightly elevated despite reduced ventricular filling pressures and central blood volume, suggestive of improved cardiac diastolic and/or systolic function. Heat stress improves cardiac systolic and diastolic function in patients with congestive heart failure, although it remains unknown whether similar responses occur in healthy individuals, which is the hypothesis to be tested. Nine male volunteers underwent a whole body heat stress. Echocardiographic indexes of diastolic and systolic function were performed following a supine resting period, and again following an increase in internal temperature of ∼1.0°C via passive heat stress. Despite previous reports of heat stress-induced decreases in ventricular filling pressures and central blood volume, no changes in indexes of diastolic function were identified during heating [i.e., unchanged early diastolic mitral annular tissue velocity (E'), mitral inflow during the early diastolic phase (E), the E/E' ratio, and isovolumetric relaxation time]. Heat stress increased late diastolic septal (P = 0.03) and lateral (P = 0.01) mitral annular tissue velocities (A'), mitral inflow velocity during atrial contraction (P > 0.001), and the relative contribution of atrial contraction to left ventricular filling during diastole (P = 0.01), all indicative of improved atrial systolic function. Furthermore, indexes of ventricular systolic function were increased by heat stress [i.e., increased septal (P = 0.001) and lateral (P = 0.01) mitral annular systolic velocities and isovolumic acceleration at the septal (P = 0.03) and lateral (P > 0.001) mitral annulus]. These data are suggestive of improved atrial and ventricular systolic function by the heat stress. Together these data support previous findings, which used the less precise measure of ejection fraction, that heat stress improves indexes of systolic
KW - Function
KW - Stroke volume
KW - While diastolic function is maintained.cardiac systolic function
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U2 - 10.1152/ajpheart.01069.2008
DO - 10.1152/ajpheart.01069.2008
M3 - Article
C2 - 19218504
AN - SCOPUS:66249133396
SN - 0363-6135
VL - 296
SP - H1150-H1156
JO - American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
JF - American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
IS - 4
ER -