BookSatoshi Iwase, Junichiro Hayano, Satoshi Orimo, editors.
Contents:
PART I: Sympathetic Microneurography
1 Introduction to Sympathetic Microneurography
2 Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity in Neurological Disorders
3 Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Cardiovascular Diseases
4 Skin sympathetic nerve activity and thermoregulatory control in humans
5 Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Syncope
6 Single Fiber Analysis of Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity
PART II: Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
7 Introduction to Heart Rate Variability
8 Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Entraining Heartbeats with Cheyne-Stokes Respiration
Cardiopulmonary Works to be Minimal by Synchronizing Heartbeats with Breathing
9 Heart RateVariability and Sympathetic Nerve Activity
10 Heart Rate Variability and Cardiac Diseases
11 Heart-rate Variability and Neurological Disorders
PART III: Cardiac MIBG Scintigraphy
12 An introduction to MIBG cardiac scintigraphy
13 Noradrenaline and 123I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine Kinetics in the Sympathetic Nervous System
14 Technical Considerations for MIBG Cardiac Scintigraphy
15 Findings of 123I-MIBG cardiac scintigraphy : Parkinson?s disease and related disorders, and others. (RBD, cardiac diseases, DM, etc)
16 Findings of MIBG Cardiac Scintigraphy: Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Related Dementia
17 Physiological Background of Reduced Cardiac 123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine Uptake
18 Pathological background of reduced cardiac MIBG uptake
19 Clinical Implication of Reduced Cardiac MIBG Uptake.