Using Skin Sympathetic Nerve Activity to Estimate Sympathetic Tone in Human
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Nerve; Disorder, Sympathetic
- Sponsor
- Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
- Enrollment
- 1000
- Primary Endpoint
- Skin Sympathetic Nerve Activity
- Status
- Enrolling by Invitation
- Last Updated
- 2 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
There are many sympathetic hyperactivity diseases in the investigators' clinical practice. However, the conventional method to measure the sympathetic nerve activity had many limitations such as clinical application, data interpretation and even therapeutic manipulation. Therefore the investigators would like to develop a non-invasive method to record the sympathetic nerve activity in the investigators' study that can help gathering the sympathetic nerve activity easily in the investigators' daily clinical situation. By the determination of sympathetic nerve activity status, the health caregiver can understand the disease more.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Sympathetic hyperactivity diseases included: hypertension, heart failure atherosclerotic diseases, arrhythmias, cardiomyopathy, pulmonary hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, sleep apnea, pulmonary embolism, hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, hepatopulmonary syndrome, hepatorenal syndrome, renal failure, nephritis, irritable bowel syndrome.
- •Healthy Volunteers
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Skin Sympathetic Nerve Activity
Time Frame: 12 hours
The Sympathetic Nerve Activity Recording from the skin of the subjects in the day time.
Secondary Outcomes
- ventricular arrhythmia(24 to 72 hours)
- Mortality(1 to 12 months)
- Morbidity(1 to 12 months)