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The effects of cataract surgery on autonomic heart rate control: a prospective cross-sectional and analytical study.

Ricardo H AokiItalla Maria Pinheiro BezerraAlvaro Dantas de Almeida-JúniorRenata Thaís de A BarbosaVitor Engrácia ValentiFernando Rocha OliveiraAdriano L RoqueHugo Macedo Ferraz E Souza JúniorDavid Matthew GarnerRodrigo Daminello RaimundoLuciane Bresciani Salaroli
Published in: Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) (2019)
Throughout the intraocular lens implantation cataract surgery, there was an increase in parasympathetic modulation and a decrease in the sympathetic component of the heart rate (HR). We propose that this result is attributable to the supine position of the patients during surgery and the trigeminal reflex.
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