The autonomic nervous system and the origins of neurocardiology.

clinical: cardiac anatomy clinical: electrophysiology–autonomic nervous system clinical: electrophysiology–neurally mediated syncope

Journal

Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology
ISSN: 1540-8167
Titre abrégé: J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9010756

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
31 May 2024
Historique:
revised: 27 04 2024
received: 11 03 2024
accepted: 02 05 2024
medline: 31 5 2024
pubmed: 31 5 2024
entrez: 31 5 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Following new concepts by Bichat in the early 19th century, of organic and animal life centered around the ganglionic nervous system, over 100 years of anatomic studies and physiologic experimentation eventually resulted in Gaskell's 1916 book entitled "The Involuntary Nervous System" and Langley's 1921 book entitled "The Autonomic Nervous System." Neurology and cardiology emerged as specialties of medicine in the early 20th century. Although neurology made several prominent discoveries in neurophysiology during the first half of the 20th century, cardiology developed coronary care units and cardiac catheterization in the 1960s. Programmed electrical stimulation of the heart and noninvasive ambulatory monitoring provided new methodologies to study clinical cardiac arrhythmias. Experimentally, direct cardiac nerve stimulation of sympathetic nerve endings, as well as parasympathetic control of the atrioventricular node, provided the background to new detailed autonomic studies of the heart. Neurocardiology, perhaps initially more directed towards our understanding of sudden cardiac death, ultimately embraced an even significantly more complex scheme of local circuit neurons and near-endless loops of interconnecting neurons in the heart. Intrathoracic extracardiac and intracardiac ganglia have been recharacterized, both anatomically and physiologically, laying the groundwork for potential new therapies of cardiac neuromodulation.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38818617
doi: 10.1111/jce.16307
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

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Informations de copyright

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Auteurs

Robert Lemery (R)

Cardiology and Medical History, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Arizona Heart Rhythm Center, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

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