Trigeminal Cardiac Reflex: New Thinking Model About the Definition Based on a Literature Review

• Published in: Medicine (Baltimore) Vol. 94; no. 5; p. e484
• Main Authors: Meuwly, C., Golanov, E., Chowdhury, T., Erne, P., Schaller, B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved 01.02.2015; Wolters Kluwer Health
• Subjects: Acute Disease; Bradycardia - classification; Bradycardia - physiopathology; Chronic Disease; Heart; Hemodynamics; Humans; Reflex, Trigeminocardiac - physiology; Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis; Trigeminal Nerve - metabolism

Trigeminocardiac reflex (TCR) is a brainstem reflex that manifests as sudden onset of hemodynamic perturbation in blood pressure (MABP) and heart rate (HR), as apnea and as gastric hypermotility during stimulation of any branches of the trigeminal nerve. The molecular and clinical knowledge about th...