Enhanced Sympathetic and Ventilatory Responses to Central Chemoreflex Activation in Heart Failure

Krzysztof Narkiewicz, Catherine A. Pesek, Philippe J. H. van de Borne, Masahiko Kato, Virend K. Somers

Circulation · 1999 · 237 citations · 37 references

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Abstract

Chronic heart failure is characterized by a selective potentiation of ventilatory and sympathetic responses to central chemoreceptor activation by hypercapnia.

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