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Changes in the Electrocardiogram, Blood Gases, and Electrolytes During Voluntary Hyperventilation; Possible Mechanisms and Clinical Implications

PAUL N. YU, M.D.; BERNARD J. B. YIM, M.D.; C. ALPHEUS STANFIELD, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1959;103(6):902-913.

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The symptom patterns of the hyperventilation syndrome have been recognized for many years.^1-5 Some workers have reported abnormal lowering or inversion of the T-wave and, less frequently, depression of the ST segment in the routine electrocardiogram of many patients with this syndrome or with anxiety and emotional instability.^6-13 These changes are readily reproduced by voluntary hyperventilation. Several others have observed similar changes of the T-wave in the electrocardiogram of certain normal persons during voluntary hyperventilation.^14,15

The purpose of this report is (1) to describe the electrocardiographic abnormalities during voluntary hyperventilation in 20 patients with the hyperventilation syndrome and the effects of inhalation of CO₂ and administration of various drugs in these changes; (2) to present the changes of serum electrolytes, respiratory gases, and pH of the blood in these patients during hyperventilation, with or without inhalation of CO₂; (3) to postulate a possible mechanism for the electrocardiographic changes, and (4) . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Rochester, N. Y.

From the Cardio-Pulmonary Laboratory of the Department of Medicine, The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and Medical Clinics, Strong Memorial and Rochester Municipal Hospitals. Trainee in Cardiology, National Heart Institute, 1956-1957 (Dr. Yim); National Trudeau Association Fellow, 1957-1959 (Dr. Stanfield).

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug. 8, 1958.

Presented in part at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Physicians, Atlantic City, N. J., May 6-7, 1958.

This study was supported in part by a grant-in-aid (H 222 C8) from the National Heart Institute of the National Institutes of Health and by a grant from the American Heart Association partially supported by the Cayuga County Heart Chapter.

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