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Mansour B, Donati M, Pancsa T, Grossman P, Šteiner P, Vaněček T, Comová K, Michal M, Michal M. Molecular analysis of apocrine mixed tumors and cutaneous myoepitheliomas: a comparative study confirming a continuous spectrum of one entity with near-ubiquitous PLAG1 and rare mutually exclusive HMGA2 gene rearrangements. Virchows Arch 2024:10.1007/s00428-024-03811-x. [PMID: 38736009 DOI: 10.1007/s00428-024-03811-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2024] [Revised: 04/08/2024] [Accepted: 04/19/2024] [Indexed: 05/14/2024]
Abstract
Myoepithelial neoplasms of the skin and soft tissue still represent a confusing and somewhat controversial field in pathology as it appears that this category includes several different entities. However, recent studies have suggested that both apocrine mixed tumors (AMT) and cutaneous myoepitheliomas (CM) harbor identical chromosomal rearrangements involving the PLAG1 gene and hence may represent a morphological spectrum. The aim of the present study was to share our institutional experience with these tumors and specifically focus on studying their immunohistochemical and molecular features to further assess their relatedness. Eleven cases of AMT and 7 cases of CM were collected and analyzed using immunohistochemistry (IHC), PLAG1 FISH, and Archer FusionPlex assay. There were 14 male and 4 female patients with ages ranging from 26 to 85 years (median 55.8 years, mean 58.5 years). AMTs were mainly located in the head and neck (n = 10), while CMs were mainly located in the acral sites (n = 5). PLAG1 IHC was diffusely strongly positive in 14/17 (82%) cases, whereas a single case of AMT diffusely expressed HMGA2. Both tumor groups showed PLAG1 gene fusions which were detected in 6/13 analyzable samples (AMT, n = 4 and CM, n = 2), and included TRPS1::PLAG1 (n = 3), NDRG1::PLAG1 (n = 1), CTNNB1::PLAG1 (n = 1) and a novel PXDNL::PLAG1 fusion (n = 1). The remaining 5 cases were negative, 5 were not analyzable and the single case positive for HMGA2 by IHC revealed a potential HMGA2 gene rearrangement. The cases were further studied by FISH, with 12/17 cases showing PLAG1 gene rearrangement (AMT, n = 8 and CM, n = 4). Altogether, 14/18 cases showed PLAG1 gene rearrangement by at least one of the methods. PLAG1 immunohistochemistry had a 92% specificity and sensitivity. Our study provided additional data to suggest that AMT and CM share overlapping morphological and immunohistochemical features as well as molecular background characterized by PLAG1 gene fusions and thus represent a morphological spectrum. In addition, we identified a novel PXDNL::PLAG1 fusion and suggested that rare cases may harbor HMGA2 gene alterations which seem to be mutually exclusive with PLAG1 gene fusions. The relatedness of these tumors to salivary gland myoepithelial neoplasms and distinctness from eccrine mixed tumors and other skin and soft tissue myoepithelial neoplasms with EWSR1/FUS fusions is discussed.
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- Boulos Mansour
- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Pathology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Via Alvaro del Portillo, 200-00128, Roma, Italy
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- Bioptical Laboratory, Ltd., Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- Bioptical Laboratory, Ltd., Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- Bioptical Laboratory, Ltd., Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- Bioptical Laboratory, Ltd., Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- Bioptical Laboratory, Ltd., Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- Bioptical Laboratory, Ltd., Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- Bioptical Laboratory, Ltd., Pilsen, Czech Republic
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Bradová M, Thompson LDR, Hyrcza M, Vaněček T, Grossman P, Michal M, Hájková V, Taheri T, Rupp N, Suster D, Lakhani S, Nikolov DH, Žalud R, Skálová A, Michal M, Agaimy A. Branchioma: immunohistochemical and molecular genetic study of 23 cases highlighting frequent loss of retinoblastoma 1 immunoexpression. Virchows Arch 2024; 484:103-117. [PMID: 37962685 DOI: 10.1007/s00428-023-03697-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2023] [Revised: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 11/03/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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Branchioma is an uncommon benign neoplasm with an adult male predominance, typically occurring in the lower neck region. Different names have been used for this entity in the past (ectopic hamartomatous thymoma, branchial anlage mixed tumor, thymic anlage tumor, biphenotypic branchioma), but currently, the term branchioma has been widely accepted. Branchioma is composed of endodermal and mesodermal lineage derivatives, in particular epithelial islands, spindle cells, and mature adipose tissue without preexistent thymic tissue or evidence of thymic differentiation. Twenty-three branchiomas were evaluated morphologically. Eighteen cases with sufficient tissue were assessed by immunohistochemistry, next-generation sequencing (NGS) using the Illumina Oncology TS500 panel, and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) using an RB1 dual-color probe. All cases showed a biphasic morphology of epithelial and spindle cells with intermingled fatty tissue. Carcinoma arising in branchioma was detected in three cases. The neoplastic cells showed strong AE1/3 immunolabeling (100%), while the spindle cells expressed CD34, p63, and SMA (100%); AR was detected in 40-100% of nuclei (mean, 47%) in 14 cases. Rb1 showed nuclear loss in ≥ 95% of neoplastic cells in 16 cases (89%), while two cases revealed retained expression in 10-20% of tumor cell nuclei. NGS revealed a variable spectrum of likely pathogenic variants (n = 5) or variants of unknown clinical significance (n = 6). Loss of Rb1 was detected by FISH in two cases. Recent developments support branchioma as a true neoplasm, most likely derived from the rudimental embryological structures of endoderm and mesoderm. Frequent Rb1 loss by immunohistochemistry and heterozygous deletion by FISH is a real pitfall and potential confusion with other Rb1-deficient head and neck neoplasms (i.e., spindle cell lipoma), especially in small biopsy specimens.
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- Martina Bradová
- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, E. Benese 13, 305 99, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
- Bioptic Laboratory, Ltd, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary Laboratory Services, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Molecular and Genetic Laboratory, Bioptic Laboratory, Ltd, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Molecular and Genetic Laboratory, Bioptic Laboratory, Ltd, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, E. Benese 13, 305 99, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- Bioptic Laboratory, Ltd, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Molecular and Genetic Laboratory, Bioptic Laboratory, Ltd, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- School of Medicine and Pathology Queensland, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Pathology, Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
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- School of Medicine and Pathology Queensland, University of Queensland, UQCCR, Herston, Australia
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- Pathology Department, Regional Hospital Kolin, JSC, Kolin, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, E. Benese 13, 305 99, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- Bioptic Laboratory, Ltd, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, E. Benese 13, 305 99, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- Bioptic Laboratory, Ltd, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) Erlangen-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
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Baněčková M, Michal M, Vaněček T, Grossman P, Nikolov DH, Včelák R, Žalud R, Michal M, Agaimy A. Branchioma with a nested/organoid morphology: molecular profiling of a distinctive potentially misleading variant and reappraisal of potential relationship to CD34-positive/Rb1-deficient tumors of the neck. Virchows Arch 2023; 483:541-548. [PMID: 37401932 PMCID: PMC10611845 DOI: 10.1007/s00428-023-03592-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Revised: 06/09/2023] [Accepted: 06/28/2023] [Indexed: 07/05/2023]
Abstract
Branchioma (previously called ectopic hamartomatous thymoma, branchial anlage mixed tumor, or thymic anlage tumor) is a rare lower neck lesion with an adult male predominance and an uncertain histogenesis. Except for 4 cases, all branchiomas described in the literature were benign. Recently, HRAS mutation was detected in one case, but still little is known about the molecular genetic background of this rare entity. We herein report the histological, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic analysis of a branchioma with a nested/organoid (neuroendocrine-like) morphology in a 78-year-old man. Histology revealed classical branchioma areas merging with nested/organoid cellular component lacking conventional features of malignancy. Immunohistochemistry was positive for high-molecular-weight cytokeratins. CD34 was expressed in the spindle cell component. Moreover, the tumor cells showed near-complete loss of retinoblastoma (RB1) expression (<1% of cells positive). All neuroendocrine markers (synaptophysin, chromogranin, and INSM1) were negative. Next-generation sequencing (TSO500 Panel) revealed 5 pathogenic/likely pathogenic mutations including 1 mutation in KRAS and 2 different mutations in each of MSH6 and PTEN. FISH and DNA sequencing were negative for RB1 gene alterations. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a branchioma showing misleading nested/organoid morphology and the first report on Rb1 immunodeficiency in this entity, in addition to multiple gene mutations revealed by NGS.
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- Martina Baněčková
- Sikl's Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, E. Benese 13, 305 99, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
- Bioptic Laboratory, Ltd, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
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- Sikl's Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, E. Benese 13, 305 99, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- Bioptic Laboratory, Ltd, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Molecular and Genetic Laboratory, BiOptic Laboratory, Ltd., Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Molecular and Genetic Laboratory, BiOptic Laboratory, Ltd., Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Pathology Department, Regional Hospital Kolin JSC, Kolin, Czech Republic
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- Pathology Department, Regional Hospital Kolin JSC, Kolin, Czech Republic
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- Sikl's Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, E. Benese 13, 305 99, Pilsen, Czech Republic
- Bioptic Laboratory, Ltd, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany
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Michal M, Rubin BP, Agaimy A, Kosemehmetoglu K, Rudzinski ER, Linos K, John I, Gatalica Z, Davis JL, Liu YJ, McKenney JK, Billings SD, Švajdler M, Koshyk O, Kinkor Z, Michalová K, Kalmykova AV, Yusifli Z, Ptáková N, Hájková V, Grossman P, Šteiner P, Michal M. Correction to: EWSR1-PATZ1-rearranged sarcoma: a report of nine cases of spindle and round cell neoplasms with predilection for thoracoabdominal soft tissues and frequent expression of neural and skeletal muscle markers. Mod Pathol 2021; 34:2092. [PMID: 34112958 DOI: 10.1038/s41379-021-00740-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Michael Michal
- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine in Plzen, Charles University, Plzen, Czech Republic. .,Department of Pathology and Molecular Genetics, Bioptical Laboratory, Ltd., Plzen, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Pathology, Robert J. Tomsich Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Institute of Pathology, Friedrich-Alexander University ErlangenNürnberg, University Hospital, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Laboratories, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center and Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Robert J. Tomsich Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Robert J. Tomsich Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine in Plzen, Charles University, Plzen, Czech Republic.,Department of Pathology and Molecular Genetics, Bioptical Laboratory, Ltd., Plzen, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Pathology, CSD Health Care, Ltd., Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine in Plzen, Charles University, Plzen, Czech Republic.,Department of Pathology and Molecular Genetics, Bioptical Laboratory, Ltd., Plzen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine in Plzen, Charles University, Plzen, Czech Republic.,Department of Pathology and Molecular Genetics, Bioptical Laboratory, Ltd., Plzen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pathology and Molecular Genetics, Bioptical Laboratory, Ltd., Plzen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pathology and Molecular Genetics, Bioptical Laboratory, Ltd., Plzen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pathology and Molecular Genetics, Bioptical Laboratory, Ltd., Plzen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pathology and Molecular Genetics, Bioptical Laboratory, Ltd., Plzen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine in Plzen, Charles University, Plzen, Czech Republic.,Department of Pathology and Molecular Genetics, Bioptical Laboratory, Ltd., Plzen, Czech Republic
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Deuring G, Kiss A, Halter JP, Passweg JR, Grossman P. Cardiac autonomic functioning is impaired among allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation survivors: a controlled study. Bone Marrow Transplant 2016; 52:66-72. [DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2016.176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2016] [Revised: 04/21/2016] [Accepted: 05/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Kinkor Z, Svoboda T, Grossman P, Bludovský D, Heidenreich F, Švec A, Mečiarová I. [Diffuse tenosynovial giant cell tumor of the cervical spine destroying vertebra C6 - a case report]. Cesk Patol 2016; 52:218-221. [PMID: 27869449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Presented is a case of 59-year-old woman with longstanding neck pain who has been promptly operated for spinal cord compression. Imaging studies disclosed ill-defined cervical paravertebral soft tissue mass at the level of vertebra C5/6 abutting left-sided intervertebral joint and destroying neighboring both vertebral arch and processus spinosus. Submitted specimen was interpreted as a possible metastatic skeletal process by clinicians and referring pathologist favored diagnosis of giant cell tumor/osteoclastoma of the bone. Microscopic features were consistent with giant cell lesion where uniform mononuclear mosaic stromal component dominated the unevenly distributed loose clusters of osteoclast-like giant cells frequently imparting appearance of peculiar pseudoalveolar spaces. Additionally, alternating geographic xanthomatous and densely hyalinized/ osteoid-like zones with speckled, coarsely granular haemosiderin pigment completed the variegated structural composition. The tumor infiltrated adjacent striated muscles; either original bone structures and/or extracellular matrix deposits were not identified. Immunohistochemical stains with p63, SATB2, desmin, EMA, clusterin and S100protein turned out to be completely negative. FISH analysis revealed no rearrangement of CSF1 gene. The diagnosis of the diffuse tenosynovial giant cell tumor was rendered.
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Kinkor Z, Mečiarová I, Grossman P, Vaneček T, Švec A, Kokavec M. [Small cell type (Ewing-like) clear cell sarcoma of soft parts: a case report]. Cesk Patol 2015; 51:42-46. [PMID: 25671361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The authors present a unique case of small cell variant of clear cell sarcoma of soft parts in a 42-year old woman. The tumor originally arose in the right flank of the soft tissues and ultimately developed both a local recurrence and multiple distant skin metastases two years and ten months thereafter. Nonspecific morphology of small blue round cell tumor was preserved at all microscopically verified sites and initially led to the spectrum of erroneous diagnoses such as an extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma as well as malignant melanoma. The distinctive features of clear cell sarcoma such as fascicular nested growth pattern, spindling, clear cell change and/or eosinophilic cytoplasm were not disclosed even by extensive sampling. Immunohistochemically, the tumor expressed only S100protein and HMB45; all other markers (CD99, FLI1, cytokeratins, EMA) were completely negative. The molecular analysis carried out in one of the cutaneous metastases revealed translocation t(12;22) (EWSR1-ATF1) and ultimately led to the correct diagnosis of unusual Ewing-like clear cell sarcoma. Discussed is the implementation of molecular tests in routine diagnostics considering the existence of both histologically and biologically different tumors with an identical pathogenic molecular background.
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Coroller T, Grossman P, Rios E, Mak R, Aerts H. WE-E-17A-04: CT Based Radiomics Data Predicts for Nodal Involvement and Overall Survival in NSCLC. Med Phys 2014. [DOI: 10.1118/1.4889446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Sleptsova M, Woessmer B, Grossman P, Langewitz WA. Culturally sensitive group therapy for Turkish patients suffering from chronic pain: a randomised controlled intervention trial. Swiss Med Wkly 2013; 143:w13875. [DOI: 10.4414/smw.2013.13875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Rickles R, Tam W, III GS, Myaskovsky A, DeRoche K, Giordono T, Hoffstrom B, Grossman P, Lee M. 298 Identification of synergistic drugs using combination highthroughput screening (cHTS) and breadth of activity in diverse cancer cell networks. EJC Suppl 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6349(10)72005-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Grossman P, Kappos L, Gensicke H, D'Souza M, Mohr DC, Penner IK, Steiner C. MS quality of life, depression, and fatigue improve after mindfulness training: a randomized trial. Neurology 2010; 75:1141-9. [PMID: 20876468 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e3181f4d80d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 231] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is often much reduced among individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS), and incidences of depression, fatigue, and anxiety are high. We examined effects of a mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) compared to usual care (UC) upon HRQOL, depression, and fatigue among adults with relapsing-remitting or secondary progressive MS. METHODS A total of 150 patients were randomly assigned to the intervention (n = 76) or to UC (n = 74). MBI consisted of a structured 8-week program of mindfulness training. Assessments were made at baseline, postintervention, and 6 months follow-up. Primary outcomes included disease-specific and disease-aspecific HRQOL, depression, and fatigue. Anxiety, personal goal attainment, and adherence to homework were secondary outcomes. RESULTS Attrition was low in the intervention group (5%) and attendance rate high (92%). Employing intention-to-treat analysis, MBI, compared with UC, improved nonphysical dimensions of primary outcomes at postintervention and follow-up (p < 0.002); effect sizes, 0.4-0.9 posttreatment and 0.3-0.5 at follow-up. When analyses were repeated among subgroups with clinically relevant levels of preintervention depression, fatigue, or anxiety, postintervention and follow-up effects remained significant and effect sizes were larger than for the total sample. CONCLUSIONS In addition to evidence of improved HRQOL and well-being, these findings demonstrate broad feasibility and acceptance of, as well as satisfaction and adherence with, a program of mindfulness training for patients with MS. The results may also have treatment implications for other chronic disorders that diminish HRQOL. CLASSIFICATION OF EVIDENCE This trial provides Class III evidence that MBI compared with UC improved HRQOL, fatigue, and depression up to 6 months postintervention.
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- P Grossman
- Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Hebelstrasse 2, Basel, Switzerland.
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Bäcker M, Grossman P, Schneider J, Knoblauch NTM, Gareus IK, Hammes M, Linde K, Melchart D, Dobos GJ. Vegetative reaction to acupuncture in migraineurs depends on the vagal tone before treatment: a randomised, controlled trial. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1111/j.2042-7166.2003.tb03970.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Klish D, Chang E, Grossman P, Allen P, Woo S, Rhines L. Irradiating Spinal Metastases: Should Covering One Vertebral Body Above and Below be Over and Out? Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.06.1442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Ambulatory respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) or high-frequency heart rate (HR) variability is frequently employed as an index of cardiac parasympathetic control and related to risk or severity of cardiovascular disease. However, laboratory studies indicate variations in physical activity and respiratory parameters of rate and tidal volume may confound estimation of vagal activity. Because little is known about these relations outside the laboratory, we examined ambulatory relations among RSA, respiration, physical activity, and HR during waking hours by employing a multichannel monitoring system. Forty healthy young-to-middle aged adults underwent daytime monitoring that included continuous registration of the ECG, respiration (inductance plethysmography), and accelerometry motion activity. Within-individual regression analyses were performed to examine minute-to-minute relations between RSA and respiration, HR, and indexes of physical activity (minute ventilation and motion). HR changes were assumed to be strongly related to within-individual variations of vagal tone. RSA adjusted for respiratory parameters and unadjusted RSA were compared for strength of prediction of other measures. Unadjusted RSA was related to respiratory parameters (R = 0.80) and moderately predicted minute-to-minute HR and activity variances (means = 56%, HR; 48%, minute ventilation; and 37%, motion). Adjusted RSA predicted significantly more HR and activity variance (means = 75%, 76%, and 57%, respectively) with narrower confidence intervals. We conclude that ambulatory RSA magnitude is associated with respiratory variations and physical activity. Adjustment for respiratory parameters substantially improves relations between RSA and significantly vagally mediated HR and physical activity. Concurrent monitoring of respiration and physical activity may enhance HR variability accuracy to predict autonomic control.
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- P Grossman
- Freiburg Institute for Mindfulness Research, Freiburg, Germany.
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Systematic simplification of the molecular structures of epicatechin gallate and epigallocatechin gallate to determine the minimum structural characteristics necessary for HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibition in vitro resulted in several compounds that strongly inhibited the native as well as the A17 double mutant (K103N Y181C) enzyme, which is normally insensitive to most known nonnucleoside inhibitors.
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- L M Tillekeratne
- Department of Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA
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Grossman P, Wilhelm FH, Kawachi I, Sparrow D. Gender differences in psychophysiological responses to speech stress among older social phobics:: congruence and incongruence between self-evaluative and cardiovascular reactions. Psychosom Med 2001; 63:765-77. [PMID: 11573025 DOI: 10.1097/00006842-200109000-00010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Evidence suggests increased cardiovascular risk and autonomic impairment among individuals with chronic anxiety. Little attention, however, has been paid to the anxiety disorder of social phobia despite its high prevalence. Additionally, gender- and age-related cardiovascular profiles have not been examined in relation to social phobia. This study investigated cardiovascular responses to a socially threatening situation among older men and women with social phobia and control subjects. METHODS Thirty subjects with social phobia and 30 control subjects (mean age = 65 years) were assessed during baseline, paced breathing, speech preparation, and speech presentation. Electrocardiographic variables, blood pressure, respiration, and emotional state (self-reported) were monitored. Hemodynamic variables included heart rate, blood pressure, cardiac output, and systemic vascular resistance; autonomic measures were respiratory sinus arrhythmia and baroreflex sensitivity, both markers of cardiac vagal control, and 0.10-Hz systolic blood pressure variability, an index of sympathetic vasomotor tone. RESULTS Subjects with social phobia, in contrast to nonanxious control subjects, manifested more anxiety, embarrassment, and somatic complaints in response to stress; however, physiological measures generally did not distinguish groups. Interaction effects indicated that socially phobic women were hyperresponsive to the stressor with respect to self-reported, hemodynamic, and autonomic parameters. Socially phobic men manifested no physiological differences in comparison with control subjects, but they reported more psychological and somatic complaints. CONCLUSIONS Gender differences in subjective and physiological responses to a socially threatening situation indicate congruence between perceived social anxiety and physiological responses in older women but not men. We found no evidence of impaired cardiovascular autonomic regulation among socially phobic men despite other reports that phobically anxious men are at greater cardiovascular risk.
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- P Grossman
- Breathing Space: Institute for Yoga, Meditation, and Health, Freiburg, Germany.
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Wilhelm FH, Grossman P, Roth WT. Analysis of cardiovascular regulation. Biomed Sci Instrum 2001; 35:135-40. [PMID: 11143335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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Adequate characterization of hemodynamic and autonomic responses to physical and mental stress can elucidate underlying mechanisms of cardiovascular disease or anxiety disorders. We developed a physiological signal processing system for analysis of continuously recorded ECG, arterial blood pressure (BP), and respiratory signals using the programming language Matlab. Data collection devices are a 16-channel digital, physiological recorder (Vitaport), a finger arterial pressure transducer (Finapres), and a respiratory inductance plethysmograph (Respitrace). Besides the conventional analysis of the physiological channels, power spectral density and transfer functions of respiration, heart rate, and blood pressure variability are used to characterize respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), 0.10-Hz BP oscillatory activity (Mayer-waves), and baroreflex sensitivity. The arterial pressure transducer waveforms permit noninvasive estimation of stroke volume, cardiac output, and systemic vascular resistance. Time trends in spectral composition of indices are assessed using complex demodulation. Transient dynamic changes of cardiovascular parameters at the onset of stress and recovery periods are quantified using a regression breakpoint model that optimizes piecewise linear curve fitting. Approximate entropy (ApEn) is computed to quantify the degree of chaos in heartbeat dynamics. Using our signal processing system we found distinct response patterns in subgroups of patients with coronary artery disease or anxiety disorders, which were related to specific pharmacological and behavioral factors.
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- F H Wilhelm
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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OBJECTIVE Although hyperglycemia has been recognized as a predictor of cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy in diabetic patients, the glucose threshold at which autonomic control begins to become impaired has not been evaluated. This study examined whether fasting plasma glucose (FPG) or fasting plasma insulin (FPI) is associated with reductions in baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) in healthy volunteers. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS FPG and FPI were measured after an overnight fast in 162 healthy volunteers (91 men, 71 women) who were 25-44 years of age. BRS was measured with power spectral analysis. RESULTS Univariate analyses showed that FPG was negatively correlated with BRS (r = -0.25, P < or = 0.001) with significant reductions observed in volunteers with FPG in the upper 2 quintiles (i.e., 93-124 mg/dl). However, after adjustment for other predictors of BRS (e.g., age, blood pressure, and BMI), the relationship between FPG and BRS was no longer significant. In contrast, FPI was negatively correlated with BRS in univariate analyses (r = -0.32, P < 0.0001) as well as after covariate adjustment, with close to a 50% reduction in BRS observed in the volunteers with insulin values in the highest quintile (i.e., 16-36 microU/ml). CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that high normal levels of FPG are associated with reduced autonomic control secondary to the effects of aging, obesity, and elevated blood pressure on FPG levels and that elevations in FPI are associated with substantial reductions in autonomic cardiac control independent of other covariates.
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- L L Watkins
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
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OBJECTIVE Although depression and anxiety predict risk of cardiac mortality, the contributions of depression and anxiety to vagal cardiac control have not been systematically evaluated. The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between state anxiety and vagal control of heart rate in older adults with major depressive disorder (MDD). Older adults (50-70 years old) were selected for this study because of the greater cardiac risk associated with low vagal cardiac control across this age range. METHODS Fifty-six men and women with MDD were evaluated. MDD was diagnosed using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule, and severity of depression was measured using the Beck Depression Inventory and the Hamilton Rating Scale for depression. State anxiety was measured using the Spielberger State Anxiety Inventory. Power spectral analysis was used to measure two indices of vagal control: baroreflex control of heart rate (BRC(SPEC)) and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). RESULTS State anxiety was negatively correlated with levels of BRC(SPEC) (r = -0.32, p < .05), whereas depression severity was not related to either RSA or BRC(SPEC). Furthermore, BRC(SPEC) was reduced by approximately 33% in MDD patients with state anxiety scores (ST-ANX) in the highest quartile (ST-ANX > 41, N = 13), compared with patients with ST-ANX scores in the lowest quartile (ST-ANX < 25, N = 14; p < .05). CONCLUSIONS Anxiety, but not depression severity, is associated with reduced BRC(SPEC) in older men and women. Future studies are needed to determine whether comorbid anxiety contributes to the increased cardiovascular risk associated with MDD.
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- L L Watkins
- Duke University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
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BACKGROUND Although depression has been associated with cardiac death in coronary artery disease (CAD), little is known about the effects of depression on autonomic nervous system control of heart rate. This study evaluated whether depressive symptomatology is associated with impaired baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) in patients with CAD. METHODS AND RESULTS BRS was assessed in 66 patients with stable CAD by using cross-spectral analysis to measure baroreceptor-mediated R-R interval oscillations. Depressive symptomatology was determined with the Beck Depression Inventory, with lower (scores <3, n = 14) and upper (scores >9, n = 16) quartiles of scores used to define groups with low and high depressive symptomatology, respectively. Comparison of the two groups showed that age-adjusted BRS was reduced in the patients with high depressive symptomatology when compared with patients with low depressive symptomatology (4.5 +/- 2.7 vs 6.5 +/- 2.8 ms/mm Hg; P <. 05). CONCLUSIONS The current findings show that patients with CAD and depressive symptomatology have reduced BRS. Future studies are needed to examine whether reduced baroreflex cardiac control predicts cardiac risk in patients with CAD and depressive symptomatology.
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- L L Watkins
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Wientjes CJ, Grossman P. Respiratory psychophysiology as a discipline: introduction to the special issue. Biol Psychol 1998; 49:1-8. [PMID: 9792481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Wientjes CJ, Grossman P, Gaillard AW. Influence of drive and timing mechanisms on breathing pattern and ventilation during mental task performance. Biol Psychol 1998; 49:53-70. [PMID: 9792484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Assessment of multiple respiratory measures may provide insight into how behavioral demands affect the breathing pattern. This is illustrated by data from a study among 44 subjects, in which tidal volume, respiration rate, minute ventilation and indices of central drive and timing mechanisms were assessed via inductive plethysmography, in addition to end-tidal PCO2. After a baseline, three conditions of a memory comparison task were presented. The first two conditions differed only with regard to the presence or absence of feedback of performance (NFB and FB). In the third 'all-or-nothing' (AON) condition, subjects only received a monetary bonus, if their performance exceeded that of the previous two conditions. Minute ventilation increased from baseline to all task conditions, and from NFB and FB to AON. Respiration rate increased in all task conditions, but there were no differences between task conditions. Tidal volume decreased during NFB, but was equal to baseline during FB and AON. Of the respiratory control indices, inspiratory flow rate covaried much more closely with minute ventilation than duty cycle. The task performance induced a minor degree of hyperventilation. The discussion focusses on how behavioral demands affect respiratory control processes to produce alterations in breathing pattern and ventilation.
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- C J Wientjes
- NATO Research and Technology Agency, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
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OBJECTIVE Prospective studies have demonstrated that anxiety predicts sudden cardiac death, but the mechanism underlying this increased risk is unclear. This study examined whether anxiety is associated with reductions in vagal control of heart rate in healthy volunteers. METHOD Trait anxiety (T-ANX) was measured, using the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), in 93 healthy men and women 25 to 44 years of age. Power spectral analysis was used to measure two indices of vagal control: baroreflex control of heart rate (BRC) and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). RESULTS High trait anxiety (T-ANX > 41, N = 23) was associated with significantly reduced vagal control of the heart, compared with low trait anxiety (T-ANX < 31, N = 22), as indicated by a 36% reduction in BRC (p< .001) and an 8% reduction in RSA (p<.05). Furthermore, T-ANX scores were negatively correlated with levels of BRC (r = -.30, p<.005), and levels of RSA (r = -.26, p <.05). CONCLUSIONS These findings provide evidence that trait anxiety is associated with reductions in vagal control of the heart. Additional studies are needed to examine whether low vagal control is involved in the increased risk of sudden cardiac death associated with anxiety.
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- L L Watkins
- Duke University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
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Berntson GG, Bigger JT, Eckberg DL, Grossman P, Kaufmann PG, Malik M, Nagaraja HN, Porges SW, Saul JP, Stone PH, van der Molen MW. Heart rate variability: origins, methods, and interpretive caveats. Psychophysiology 1997; 34:623-48. [PMID: 9401419 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1997.tb02140.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2248] [Impact Index Per Article: 83.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Components of heart rate variability have attracted considerable attention in psychology and medicine and have become important dependent measures in psychophysiology and behavioral medicine. Quantification and interpretation of heart rate variability, however, remain complex issues and are fraught with pitfalls. The present report (a) examines the physiological origins and mechanisms of heart rate variability, (b) considers quantitative approaches to measurement, and (c) highlights important caveats in the interpretation of heart rate variability. Summary guidelines for research in this area are outlined, and suggestions and prospects for future developments are considered.
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- G G Berntson
- Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210, USA.
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Emotional defensiveness, defined by concealment of both negative emotions and personal vulnerability, was substantially and consistently correlated with the magnitude of blood pressure reactions to 2 types of mental stress among coronary patients, independently of clinical status. Given recent studies denoting stress-related blood pressure surges as triggers of dangerous cardiovascular events, exaggerated vasomotor reactions among defensive patients may be of clinical significance.
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- P Grossman
- Lown Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
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Finapres finger blood pressure monitoring appears to provide a reliable alternative to intra-arterial blood pressure measurement under many circumstances. However, few studies have focused on the limitations of Finapres assessment. In a previous pilot investigation, we observed that Finapres pressure following mental stressors failed to return to initial resting levels. Our objectives in the present study were to (1) replicate earlier findings, (2) examine whether local changes in the measured finger were responsible for the observed drift, and (3) test a method to facilitate the return of pressure to systemic baseline levels. We studied two groups of healthy subjects who underwent a protocol consisting of two mental stressors preceded and followed by baseline periods. In the control group, the Finapres continuously monitored pressure on a single finger for the entire protocol. The intervention group periodically had the Finapres cuff removed and the measured finger exercised to prevent local changes that might influence Finapres estimation of blood pressure. Comparisons indicated a group x baseline interaction effect for systolic and diastolic pressures (P < .0004 and P < .003, respectively). The group with the exercise intervention showed much greater recover during the final baseline than the control group. Recovery of pressures in the control group but not the intervention group was inversely related to the stress level of blood pressure (r = .86, P < .0002), indicating a relationship between blood pressure rise and the degree of distortion of subsequent baseline values. On the basis of our results, we propose that in prolonged protocols, the measurement finger be exercised to facilitate accurate measurements of finger pressure with the Finapres.
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- H L Ristuccia
- Lown Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Brookline, MA 02146, USA
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Grossman P, Watkins LL, Wilhelm FH, Manolakis D, Lown B. Cardiac vagal control and dynamic responses to psychological stress among patients with coronary artery disease. Am J Cardiol 1996; 78:1424-7. [PMID: 8970419 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(97)89295-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Two groups of patients with coronary artery disease who differed in level of cardiac vagal control were compared in their cardiovascular responses to psychological stress. Patients with lower vagal control manifested increased reactions in diastolic blood pressure and rate-pressure product to mental stress and tended to have greater systemic vasoconstriction.
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- P Grossman
- Lown Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Brookline, Massachusetts 02146, USA
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Watkins LL, Grossman P, Sherwood A. Noninvasive assessment of baroreflex control in borderline hypertension. Comparison with the phenylephrine method. Hypertension 1996; 28:238-43. [PMID: 8707388 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.28.2.238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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In this study, we examined the sensitivity of two recently developed noninvasive baroreflex measurement techniques to assess baroreflex control in hypertension. We assessed baroreflex sensitivity noninvasively from covariations of systolic pressure and RR interval using spectral analysis and sequence detection. The noninvasive estimates of baroreflex control were compared with estimates derived from phenylephrine-induced increases in systolic pressure and RR interval in normotensive subjects (n = 27) and borderline hypertensive subjects (n = 15). Baroreflex sensitivity was significantly reduced in the borderline hypertensive group relative to the normotensive group when assessed with the use of either the noninvasive or invasive methods to index baroreflex control. In addition, estimates obtained from the noninvasive methods were significantly correlated with baroreflex sensitivity assessed with the phenylephrine method (spectral: r = .48, P < .001; sequence: r = .50, P < .001). These findings suggest that spectral analysis and the sequence method provide viable alternatives to the pharmacological approach for estimation of baroreflex sensitivity in hypertension.
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- L L Watkins
- Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Brookline, Mass 02146, USA
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There is no doubt that vegetative patients need the appropriate medical and nursing procedures as well as family involvement, education and counselling. Additional structured stimulation programmes are used for the treatment of coma and vegetative state. The theoretical foundation is derived from animal studies. The relevance of the results for the rehabilitation of head-injured human patients remains questionable, because all animal studies involve the use of cerebral lesions different from those found in human head-injured patients. The studies of human sensory stimulation give more an orientation than a definitive statement. Very recently, hypotheses concerning sensory regulation have begun to be evaluated. Further investigations are required to provide a more definite conclusion.
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- P Grossman
- Arzt für Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Neurologische Klinik Elzach/Schwarzwald, Postfach, Germany
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Epidemiological studies made within the western countries indicate an incidence of 200-300 traumatic head injuries per 100 000 residents each year. Severe head injuries account for 5-25% of all head injuries; 10-14% of all severe head-injured patients develop into a vegetative state, in which a sleep-wake rhythm is apparent, but however in which there is no evidence of awakeness or reactivity to the environment. The most commonly used labels, in the German and international literature, for these patients are 'vegetative state', 'apallic syndrome' and 'coma vigile'. This clinical characterization is not sufficient. It is necessary to employ additional criteria to distinguish subsets of vegetative patients e.g. computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, single photon emission tomography, electroencephalography, brainstem reflexes, evoked potentials, assessment scales, age, premorbid brain disorders. Diagnostic and prognostic parameters must form the basis for various decisions relating to patients' care and intervention.
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- P Grossman
- Arzt fur Neurologie un Psychiatrie, Neurologische Klinik Elzach/Schwarzwald, Postfach, Germany
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Eggerding FA, Iovannisci DM, Brinson E, Grossman P, Winn-Deen ES. Fluorescence-based oligonucleotide ligation assay for analysis of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene mutations. Hum Mutat 1995; 5:153-65. [PMID: 7538376 DOI: 10.1002/humu.1380050209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Isolation of the gene for cystic fibrosis (CF), the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), provided a basis for analyzing its molecular pathology and resulted in the identification of > 400 mutations associated with disease. Except for the delta F508 mutation, no other single mutation accounts for > 5% of CF chromosomes in most populations, and most mutation frequencies are < 1%. A strategy based on multiplex PCR followed by multiplex allele-specific oligonucleotide probe ligation was used to detect 30 mutations, distributed throughout ten exons and seven introns of the CFTR gene, that together account for > 96% of CF mutant chromosomes worldwide. Mutations were detected by competitive oligonucleotide probe ligation to detect normal and/or mutant genotypes in one reaction. Three probes (one common and two allelic probes) were needed for analysis of each mutation. Probes hybridized to target DNA were joined by a thermostable ligase if there were no mismatches at their junctions; temperature cycling resulted in a linear increase in product. Common probes were labeled with fluorochromes, and allelic probes each had different lengths. Ligation products were analyzed electrophoretically on a fluorescent DNA sequencer. The results show that combined PCR and probe ligation amplification rapidly and reliably screen for CF homozygotes and carriers.
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- F A Eggerding
- Applied Biosystems Division, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Foster City, California 94404, USA
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Wientjes CJ, Grossman P. Overreactivity of the psyche or the soma? Interindividual associations between psychosomatic symptoms, anxiety, heart rate, and end-tidal partial carbon dioxide pressure. Psychosom Med 1994; 56:533-40. [PMID: 7871109 DOI: 10.1097/00006842-199411000-00009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Current research has all but refuted previous suggestions about the role of hyperventilation as a proximal, common cause of psychosomatic symptoms. As an alternative, it has been proposed that the experience of psychosomatic symptoms is primarily associated with psychological mechanisms, i.e., with enhanced tendencies of distressed individuals to focus their attention on bodily sensations and to evaluate these in a catastrophic manner. Although this hypothesis has received considerable empirical support, physiological influences on symptom reporting have not, as yet, been fully explored. In this study, contributions of psychological and physiological factors were studied among a group of 83 normal healthy male subjects by an assessment of the interindividual relationships between symptom experience in daily life, situational and dispositional anxiety, baseline end-tidal partial carbon dioxide pressure (PCO2), and heart rate. Trait anxiety and end-tidal PCO2 each contributed separately to the prediction of the psychosomatic symptom score. Trait anxiety explained nearly one third of the symptom variance, and an additional 4% was explained by PCO2. Psychological symptoms were more strongly associated with anxiety and somatic symptoms, more strongly with PCO2. Heart rate only tended to be correlated with symptom reporting. Analysis of covariance among subgroups of extreme-symptom reporters supported the correlational findings by demonstrating that the association between hyperventilation and symptom reporting remained intact when psychological influences were factored out. The findings suggest that reports of psychosomatic symptoms represent two distinct components: one that is primarily psychological (and is unrelated to physiological factors) and a second that reflects objective variance in physiological functioning. The influence of the first component is probably greater than that of the second.
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- C J Wientjes
- TNO Institute for Perception, Soesterberg, The Netherlands
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Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is frequently employed as an intra- and interindividual index of cardiac parasympathetic tone, although the relationship of RSA to interindividual differences in cardiac vagal tone remains questionable. Our study examined between- and within-subject relations among RSA, cardiac vagal tone, and respiratory parameters. Twenty-nine young adults performed two sessions of tasks under no medication and single and double autonomic blockade (intravenously administered propranolol and atropine). Parasympathetic tone was determined from heart period responses to complete vagal blockade. Results indicated the following. Resting RSA does not accurately predict individual differences in cardiac vagal tone. However, RSA and heart period together do predict such individual differences reasonably well. The relationship between individual variations in RSA and vagal tone is not improved by controlling respiratory parameters. Substantial cardiac vagal activity occurs during inspiration, and intraindividual variations in respiratory measures confound the association between RSA and cardiac vagal tone.
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- P Grossman
- Psychophysiology Research Group, University of Freiburg, Germany
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Grossman P, Brinkman A, de Vries J. Cardiac autonomic mechanisms associated with borderline hypertension under varying behavioral demands: evidence for attenuated parasympathetic tone but not for enhanced beta-adrenergic activity. Psychophysiology 1992; 29:698-711. [PMID: 1334272 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1992.tb02048.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Elevated blood pressure in psychophysiological studies of borderline hypertension is frequently attributed to the effects of increased sympathetic tone, and with few exceptions, the potential parasympathetic contributions have not been considered. Furthermore, of the investigations that have addressed vagal influences upon blood pressure, most have employed invasive pharmacological assessment of parasympathetic tone. In this study, cardiac parasympathetic and beta-adrenergic influences in borderline hypertension were evaluated noninvasively employing respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a vagal index and preejection period as a sympathetic index of cardiac functioning. Subjects were 30 borderline hypertensive and 23 normotensive males (age range, 24-45 years). The ECG, blood pressure, impedance cardiography, and respiration were measured during two baselines (initial and post-task), a memory-comparison reaction time task, the cold pressor, and CO2-rebreathing. Results indicated tonic differences between groups in all cardiovascular variables across tasks, with the exception of pre-ejection period, which showed no group effects at all. Hypertensives additionally manifested somewhat heightened systolic blood pressure reactivity and attenuated cardiac parasympathetic responsivity to specific tasks. Our findings provide no support for an exaggerated cardiac beta-adrenergic tonic level or reactivity in borderline hypertensives. On the other hand, the consistently lower magnitude of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in our hypertensives suggests that reduced parasympathetic control may be involved in the pathophysiology of hypertension.
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- P Grossman
- Department of Psychophysiology, Free University of Amsterdam
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Grossman P. Respiratory and cardiac rhythms as windows to central and autonomic biobehavioral regulation: selection of window frames, keeping the panes clean and viewing the neural topography. Biol Psychol 1992; 34:131-61. [PMID: 1467391 DOI: 10.1016/0301-0511(92)90013-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Respiratory and cardiovascular processes figure importantly in biobehavioral regulation. Various cardiac and respiratory measures may, furthermore, index the activity of relatively distinct central and autonomic mechanisms. In this regard, I consider ventilatory indices of central drive and timing of respiration, and rhythmic cardiac-interval fluctuations as reflections of parasympathetic and sympathetic cardiac influences. Particular emphasis is placed upon the phenomenon of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). A number of conceptual and methodological questions are addressed concerning quantification and inference. Among others, these include the following issues: (1) What is the evidence that the three cardiac periodicities slower than heart rate reflect distinct autonomic mechanisms? (2) Does RSA reflect tonic or phasic parasympathetic regulation of heart rate? (3) Do specific quantification procedures for measuring these rhythms provide superior estimates? (4) What are some potential pitfalls for quantification and inference.
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- P Grossman
- University of Freiburg, Psychophysiological Research Group, Germany
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Grossman P. 'An urgent remedy needed'. Br Dent J 1992; 172:48. [PMID: 1739496 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.4807765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- P Grossman
- Forschungsgruppe Psychophysiologie, University of Freiburg, Germany
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Alpha-adrenergic, beta-adrenergic, and cholinergic responses are often considered important activation components when conceptual and empirical analyses are made of single physiological variables and of patterns of cardiovascular reactivity; these autonomic distinctions are also of particular significance in autonomic blockade studies. A Model of Cardiovascular Activation Components is introduced that relates these components to both the measured cardiovascular variables and the protocol of autonomic blockade studies. It is pointed out that a restricted form of the complete model is often implicitly used in cardiovascular psychophysiology. The differential consequences of an erroneous employment of the restricted model are discussed for single and dual blockade protocols. Critical evaluations of autonomic blockade as a tool in cardiovascular psychophysiology are examined and are proposed to be often the consequence of the restricted model assumptions. Lastly, the utility of the Activation Components Model for a componential description of tasks and for componential intertask relationships is illustrated with data from the literature.
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- G Stemmler
- Forschungsgruppe Psychophysiologie, University of Freiburg, Germany
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Grossman P, Karemaker J, Wieling W. Prediction of tonic parasympathetic cardiac control using respiratory sinus arrhythmia: the need for respiratory control. Psychophysiology 1991; 28:201-16. [PMID: 1946886 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1991.tb00412.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 336] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) has received much attention in recent years due to the large body of evidence indicating that variations in this phenomenon represent alterations in parasympathetic cardiac control. Although it appears that respiratory sinus arrhythmia is mediated by vagal mechanisms, the extent to which the well-known respiratory influences (i.e., rate and tidal volume) on respiratory sinus arrhythmia (in altering its magnitude) may moderate the relationship between RSA and cardiac vagal tone has never been systematically studied. We addressed this issue by examining intraindividual relationships among RSA magnitude, respiration (rate and tidal volume), and heart period among six healthy male adults after intravenous administration of 10 mg propranolol, a beta-adrenergic blocker. Subjects were exposed to various behavioral tasks which altered all physiological variables measured. Variations in heart period after beta blockade were assumed to be predominantly vagally mediated. Within-subject regression analyses consistently showed that respiratory parameters influenced RSA magnitude, but not tonic variations in beta-blocked heart period, suggesting that respiratory-mediated RSA alterations are not associated with changes in cardiac vagal tone. Only when respiratory variables were statistically controlled was there evidence of a reasonable correspondence between beta-blocked heart period and RSA amplitude, providing support for the idea that respiratory parameters need to be controlled when using RSA amplitude as an index of cardiac vagal tone. Repeated-measures analyses of variance of mean levels of heart period and respiratory sinus arrhythmia across subjects supplemented and supported the intraindividual results. These findings point to the importance of controlling for respiratory parameters when using respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a cardiac vagal index.
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- P Grossman
- Department of Physiological Psychology, Free University of Amsterdam
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The empirical literature has shown that respiratory sinus arrhythmia is a sensitive noninvasive index of parasympathetic cardiac control. Nevertheless there has been no general agreement among investigators as to the most preferable quantification technique for assessing respiratory sinus arrhythmia, although there has been much speculation that specific estimation techniques are more or less reflective of vagal processes and could be more or less contaminated by other influences upon heart period variability unrelated to respiration. This study compared three quantification procedures for estimating respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA): (1) a spectral analytic technique, (2) a complex detrending approach removing periodic and aperiodic cardiac variations unrelated to respiration, and (3) a time-domain, peak-valley procedure employing inspiratory and expiratory periods as windows for determining range of cardiac-interval fluctuations associated with respiratory phase. Measures derived from these techniques were intra- and interindividually compared using three different samples of male subjects, including students, adult normotensives, and adult hypertensives. All interindividual correlations between measures yielded coefficients above .92 and the mean within-subject correlation across 42 individuals was .96, thus indicating a marked degree of comparability between measures. Additionally, given that much evidence indicates lawful within-individual relations between RSA amplitude and respiratory parameters, we employed respiratory period as an external criterion and compared intraindividual correlations between this variable and (2) and (3); results showed that (3) was significantly more highly associated with respiration than was (2), although the mean r's for the two measures did not diverge greatly (.91 vs. .84). Finally, inspection of the data and further regression analyses did not suggest that any of the RSA estimates were differentially contaminated by other components of cardiac variability. Our findings suggest that the three techniques are almost equivalent as indices of cardiac vagal tone and would appear to ease concerns about the inferiority of any of the procedures. Choice of a quantification procedure should therefore be tailored to the specific empirical needs of an investigation. The advantages and disadvantages of each method are discussed.
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- P Grossman
- Department of Psychophysiology, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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This study addresses a number of unresolved issues regarding the employment of respiratory sinus arrhythmia as an index of tonic parasympathetic cardiac control in psychophysiological investigations. These questions include the following: (1) Does respiratory sinus arrhythmia reflect cardiac vagal tone under conditions in which alterations in parasympathetic control are expected to be mild to moderate? (2) Are variations in human respiratory sinus arrhythmia that occur in response to varying behavioral demands independent of beta-adrenergic effects on the heart? (3) To what extent do typical experimental tasks apparently affect tonic cardiac vagal control? Twelve healthy male subjects were administered a joint alpha- and beta-adrenoreceptor pharmacological blocker on one day and a placebo on another (balanced across subjects). On both days, respiratory sinus arrhythmia and heart period were monitored during a number of different experimental tasks while subjects continuously paced their respiration. Results indicated that respiratory sinus arrhythmia, under controlled respiratory conditions, is uninfluenced by variations in sympathetic activity, and provides a reasonably sensitive index of cardiac vagal tone, even when alterations in parasympathetic tone are not large. Furthermore, our findings suggest that cardiac vagal tone is responsive to varying behavioral demands and may interact in different ways with beta-adrenergic mechanisms.
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- P Grossman
- Psychophysiology Research Group, University of Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Grossman P, Wientjes K, de Swart J. Respiratory psychophysiological patterning among hyperventilation syndrome patients and healthy controls. Biol Psychol 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/0301-0511(89)90062-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Wientjes C, Grossman P, de Swart H, Gaillard A, Defares P. Respiratory, cardiovascular and somatic symptom responses before, during and after the performance of demanding mental tasks among hyperventilation syn. Biol Psychol 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/0301-0511(89)90052-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Defares P, Grossman P, Kok J. Differential effects of trait anxiety levels on hyperventilatory breathing during performance under stressful conditions. Biol Psychol 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/0301-0511(86)90067-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Kaplan SL, Grossman P, Landa B, Shenker IR, Weinhold C. Depressive symptoms and life events in physically ill hospitalized adolescents. J Adolesc Health Care 1986; 7:107-11. [PMID: 3957747 DOI: 10.1016/s0197-0070(86)80005-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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To study life events and depressive symptoms in adolescents hospitalized for physical illness, we administered the Coddington Life Events Survey and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) to 43 acutely ill adolescents, 42 chronically ill adolescents, and 140 adolescents from a general population. There were no differences between the three groups in total BDI, Psychological BDI, and Coddington Life Change Categories adjusted for hospitalization. The Somatic BDI was significantly greater in the acutely ill and chronically ill than in the general population sample (p less than 0.01). In the chronically ill, the Family Life Change score correlated with the psychological BDI (r = 0.44, p less than 0.01) but the Undesirable Life Change score did not. In the acutely ill and the general population, the Undesirable Life Change Score correlated with the Psychological BDI (r = 0.44, p less than 0.01), (r = 0.43, p less than 0.01) but the Family Life Change Score did not.
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Svebak S, Grossman P. The experience of psychosomatic symptoms in the hyperventilation provocation test and in non-hyperventilation tasks. Scand J Psychol 1985; 26:327-35. [PMID: 3937233 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1985.tb01171.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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A therapy directed toward slowing and regularizing the ventilatory pattern was compared with a partial-treatment, comparison procedure for individuals with somatic and psychological symptoms attributable to hyperventilation episodes (i.e. hyperventilation syndrome). Comparing repeated measures between a pretreatment baseline session and a post-treatment followup, we found that the experimental therapy, in contrast to the comparison procedure, produced a greater number of, and more extensive, improvements in psychological, symptom complaint and ventilatory dimensions. Results also suggest changes in central respiratory control mechanisms as a consequence of treatment.
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Ignatova MS, Il'in LB, Degtiareva EM, Fokeeva VV, Grossman P. [Pattern of nephropathies leading to end-stage renal failure in children]. Urol Nefrol (Mosk) 1984:59-63. [PMID: 6740821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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