Maik Riedl

Publications (9)10.99 Total impact

• Article: Coupling analysis of transient cardiovascular dynamics.

  Andreas Müller, Maik Riedl, Thomas Penzel, Hendrik Bonnemeier, Jürgen Kurths, Niels Wessel
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  ABSTRACT: Abstract The analysis of effects from coupling in and between systems is important in data-driven investigations as practiced in many scientific fields. It allows deeper insights into the mechanisms of interaction emerging among individual smaller systems when forming complex systems as in the human circulatory system. For systems featuring various regimes, usually only the epochs before and after a transition between different regimes are analyzed, although relevant information might be hidden within these transitions. Transient behavior of cardiovascular variables may emerge, on the one hand, from the recovery of the system after a severe disturbance or, on the other hand, from adaptive behavior throughout changes of states. It contains important information about the processes involved and the relations between state variables such as heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration. Therefore, we apply an ensemble approach to extend the method of symbolic coupling traces to time-variant coupling analysis. These new ensemble symbolic coupling traces are capable of determining coupling direction, strength, and time offset τ from transient dynamics in multivariate cardiovascular data. We use this method to analyze data recorded during an orthostatic test to reveal a transient structure that cannot be detected by classic methods.
  Biomedizinische Technik/Biomedical Engineering 03/2013; · 0.53 Impact Factor
• Article: Cardiovascular and respiratory regulation during sleep in patients with sleep apnea with and without hypertension.

  Thomas Penzel, Alexander Suhrbier, G Bretthauer, Maik Riedl, Niels Wessel, Jürgen Kurths, Hagen Malberg, Ingo Fietze
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  ABSTRACT: Sleep is a physiological process with an internal program of a number of well defined sleep stages and intermediate wakefulness periods. The sleep stages do modulate the autonomous nervous system and thereby the sleep stages are accompanied by different regulation regimes for the cardiovascular and respiratory system. The differences in regulation can be distinguished by new analysis techniques on the recorded signals. In addition to normal sleep regulation some sleep disorders affect the cardiovascular and respiratory regulation. The most prevalent disorder linked to sleep and changes in the autonomous system is obstructive sleep apnea. In patients with obstructive sleep apnea marked short term changes in cardiovascular and respiratory regulation are observed during sleep. These abnormalities in regulation are further differentiated between the sleep stages. For long term changes obstructive sleep apnea is recognized as a major risk factor for arterial hypertension. Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea lowers blood pressure during the night and over time also lowers blood pressure during daytime. In this study we investigated 18 patients with sleep apnea and normal blood pressure, 10 patients with sleep apnea and arterial hypertension and 10 normal subjects as controls. Both patient groups were tested with cardiorespiratory polysomnography before and under CPAP therapy. The effects on cardiovascular and respiratory regulation during sleep and daytime are investigated in the three groups.
  Conference proceedings: ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference 08/2011; 2011:1475-8.
• Article: Cardiovascular regulation in different sleep stages in the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.

  Andrej Gapelyuk, Maik Riedl, Alexander Suhrbier, Jan F Kraemer, Georg Bretthauer, Hagen Malberg, Jürgen Kurths, Thomas Penzel, Niels Wessel
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  ABSTRACT: Heart rate and blood pressure variability analysis as well as baroreflex sensitivity have been proven to be powerful tools for the assessment of autonomic control in clinical practice. Their ability to detect systematic changes caused by different states, diseases and treatments shall be shown for sleep disorders. Therefore, we consider 18 normotensive and 10 hypertensive patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) before and after a three-month continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy. Additionally, an age and sex matched control group of 10 healthy subjects is examined. Linear and nonlinear parameters of heart rate and blood pressure fluctuation as well as the baroreflex sensitivity are used to answer the question whether there are differences in cardiovascular regulation between the different sleep stages and groups. Moreover, the therapeutic effect of CPAP therapy in OSAS patients shall be investigated. Kruskal-Wallis tests between the sleep stages for each group show significant differences in the very low spectral component of heart rate (VLF/P: 0.0033-0.04 Hz, p<0.01) which indicates differences in metabolic activity during the night. Furthermore, the decrease of Shannon entropy of word distribution as a parameter of systolic blood pressure during non-REM sleep reflects the local dominance of the vagal system (p<0.05). The increased sympathetic activation of the patients leads to clear differences of cardiovascular regulation in different sleep stages between controls and patients. We found a significant reduction of baroreflex sensitivity in slow wave sleep in the OSAS patients (Mann-Whitney test, p<0.05) compared to controls, which disappeared after three months of CPAP therapy. Hence, our results demonstrate the ability of cardiovascular analyzes to separate between healthy and pathological regulation as well as between different severities of OSAS in this retrospective study.
  Biomedizinische Technik/Biomedical Engineering 08/2011; 56(4):207-13. · 0.53 Impact Factor
• Article: Preserved autonomic regulation in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI): a prospective, comparative study.

  Beatrice Retzlaff, Niels Wessel, Maik Riedl, Andrej Gapelyuk, Hagen Malberg, Nina Bauernschmitt, Jürgen Kurths, Georg Bretthauer, Robert Bauernschmitt
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  ABSTRACT: Heart rate and blood pressure variability as well as baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) lead to additional insights on the patients' prognosis after cardiovascular events. The following study was performed to assess the differences in the postoperative recovery of the autonomic regulation after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR). Fifty-eight consecutive patients were enrolled in a prospective study; 24 underwent TAVI and 34 SAVR. BRS was calculated according to the Dual Sequence Method, heart rate variability (HRV) was evaluated using standard linear as well as nonlinear parameters. HRV and BRS parameters were reduced after surgery in patients with SAVR only (meanNN: p<0.001, sdNN: p<0.05, Shannon: p<0.01, BRS: p<0.01), while these indexes were preserved in patients after TAVI. Simultaneously, an increased complexity of blood pressure (BP) in SAVR patients (fwShannon: p<0.001, fwRenyi4: p<0.001), but not in TAVI patients was recorded. In this study we were able to demonstrate for the first time that, in contrast to patients undergoing conventional open surgery, there are fewer alterations of the cardiovascular autonomic system in patients with TAVI.
  Biomedizinische Technik/Biomedical Engineering 08/2011; 56(4):185-93. · 0.53 Impact Factor
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  Article: Short-term couplings of the cardiovascular system in pregnant women suffering from pre-eclampsia.

  Maik Riedl, Alexander Suhrbier, Holger Stepan, Jürgen Kurths, Niels Wessel
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  ABSTRACT: Pre-eclampsia (PE), a serious pregnancy-specific disorder, causes significant neonatal and maternal morbidity and mortality. Recent studies showed that cardiovascular variability parameters as well as the baroreflex sensitivity remarkably improve its early diagnosis. For a better understanding of the dynamical changes caused by PE, in this study the coupling between respiration, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate is investigated. Thirteen datasets of healthy pregnant women and 10 of subjects suffering from PE are included. Nonlinear additive autoregressive models with external input are used for a model-based coupling analysis following the idea of Granger causality. To overcome the problem of misdetections of standard methods in systems with a dominant driver, a heuristic ensemble approach is used here. A coupling is assumed to be real when existent in more than 80 per cent of the ensemble members, and otherwise denoted as artefacts. As the main result, we found that the coupling structure between heart rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and respiration for healthy subjects and PE patients is the same and reliable. As a pathological mechanism, however, a significant increased respiratory influence on the diastolic blood pressure could be found for PE patients (p=0.003). Moreover, the nonlinear form of the respiratory influence on the heart rate is significantly different between the two groups (p=0.002). Interestingly, the influence of systolic blood pressure on the heart rate is not selected, which indicates that the baroreflex sensitivity estimation strongly demands the consideration of causal relationships between heart rate, blood pressure and respiration. Finally, our results point to a potential role of respiration for understanding the pathogenesis of PE.
  Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 05/2010; 368(1918):2237-50. · 2.77 Impact Factor
• Article: Cardiovascular and respiratory dynamics in patients with sleep apnea.

  Thomas Penzel, Niels Wessel, Maik Riedl, Jan W Kantelhardt, Martin Glos, Ingo Fietze
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  ABSTRACT: Sleep is an active and regulated process with restorative functions for physical and mental conditions. Based on recordings of brain waves and the analysis of characteristic patterns and waveforms it is possible to distinguish wakefulness and five sleep stages. Sleep and the sleep stages modulate autonomous nervous system functions such as body temperature, respiration, blood pressure, and heart rate. Methods of statistical physics are used to analyze heart rate and respiration to detect changes of the autonomous nervous system during sleep. Detrended fluctuation analysis and synchronization analysis and their applications to heart rate and respiration during sleep in healthy subjects and patients with sleep disorders are presented. The observed changes can be used to distinguish sleep stages in healthy subjects as well as to differentiate normal and disturbed sleep on the basis of heart rate and respiration recordings without direct recording of brain waves. Of special interest are the cardiovascular consequences of disturbed sleep because they present a risk factor for cardiovascular disorders such as arterial hypertension, cardiac ischemia, sudden cardiac death, and stroke.
  Conference proceedings: ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference 01/2010; 2010:276-9.
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  Article: Is the normal heart rate "chaotic" due to respiration?

  Niels Wessel, Maik Riedl, Jürgen Kurths
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  ABSTRACT: The incidence of cardiovascular diseases increases with the growth of the human population and an aging society, leading to very high expenses in the public health system. Therefore, it is challenging to develop sophisticated methods in order to improve medical diagnostics. The question whether the normal heart rate is chaotic or not is an attempt to elucidate the underlying mechanisms of cardiovascular dynamics and therefore a highly controversial topical challenge. In this contribution we demonstrate that linear and nonlinear parameters allow us to separate completely the data sets of the three groups provided for this controversial topic in nonlinear dynamics. The question whether these time series are chaotic or not cannot be answered satisfactorily without investigating the underlying mechanisms leading to them. We give an example of the dominant influence of respiration on heart beat dynamics, which shows that observed fluctuations can be mostly explained by respiratory modulations of heart rate and blood pressure (coefficient of determination: 96%). Therefore, we recommend reformulating the following initial question: "Is the normal heart rate chaotic?" We rather ask the following: "Is the normal heart rate 'chaotic' due to respiration?"
  Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.) 07/2009; 19(2):028508. · 1.80 Impact Factor
• Article: Testing foetal-maternal heart rate synchronization via model-based analyses.

  Maik Riedl, Peter van Leeuwen, Alexander Suhrbier, Hagen Malberg, Dietrich Grönemeyer, Jürgen Kurths, Niels Wessel
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  ABSTRACT: The investigation of foetal reaction to internal and external conditions and stimuli is an important tool in the characterization of the developing neural integration of the foetus. An interesting example of this is the study of the interrelationship between the foetal and the maternal heart rate. Recent studies have shown a certain likelihood of occasional heart rate synchronization between mother and foetus. In the case of respiratory-induced heart rate changes, the comparison with maternal surrogates suggests that the evidence for detected synchronization is largely statistical and does not result from physiological interaction. Rather, they simply reflect a stochastic, temporary stability of two independent oscillators with time-variant frequencies. We reanalysed three datasets from that study for a more local consideration. Epochs of assumed synchronization associated with short-term regulation of the foetal heart rate were selected and compared with synchronization resulting from white noise instead of the foetal signal. Using data-driven modelling analysis, it was possible to identify the consistent influence of the heartbeat duration of maternal beats preceding the foetal beats during epochs of synchronization. These maternal beats occurred approximately one maternal respiratory cycle prior to the affected foetal beat. A similar effect could not be found in the epochs without synchronization. Simulations based on the fitted models led to a higher likelihood of synchronization in the data segments with assumed foetal-maternal interaction than in the segment without such assumed interaction. We conclude that the data-driven model-based analysis can be a useful tool for the identification of synchronization.
  Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 05/2009; 367(1892):1407-21. · 2.77 Impact Factor
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  Article: Cardiovascular and respiratory dynamics during normal and pathological sleep.

  Thomas Penzel, Niels Wessel, Maik Riedl, Jan W Kantelhardt, Sven Rostig, Martin Glos, Alexander Suhrbier, Hagen Malberg, Ingo Fietze
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  ABSTRACT: Sleep is an active and regulated process with restorative functions for physical and mental conditions. Based on recordings of brain waves and the analysis of characteristic patterns and waveforms it is possible to distinguish wakefulness and five sleep stages. Sleep and the sleep stages modulate autonomous nervous system functions such as body temperature, respiration, blood pressure, and heart rate. These functions consist of a sympathetic tone usually related to activation and to parasympathetic (or vagal) tone usually related to inhibition. Methods of statistical physics are used to analyze heart rate and respiration to detect changes of the autonomous nervous system during sleep. Detrended fluctuation analysis and synchronization analysis and their applications to heart rate and respiration during sleep in healthy subjects and patients with sleep disorders are presented. The observed changes can be used to distinguish sleep stages in healthy subjects as well as to differentiate normal and disturbed sleep on the basis of heart rate and respiration recordings without direct recording of brain waves. Of special interest are the cardiovascular consequences of disturbed sleep because they present a risk factor for cardiovascular disorders such as arterial hypertension, cardiac ischemia, sudden cardiac death, and stroke. New derived variables can help to find indicators for these health risks.
  Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 04/2007; 17(1):015116. · 2.08 Impact Factor