心原性ショックによる発作性交感神経過活動症の1例
Takahito Katsuyama1, Chiaki Toida1, Yasuaki Maeda1
1Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Shinshu University Nagano Japan.
Acute medicine & surgery
|February 23, 2026
まとめ
発作性交感神経過活動症(PSH)は、自律神経の過剰な活性化の状態です。この症例報告では、心原性ショック患者にPSHが発生したことを詳述し、両者の関連性を示唆しています。
科学分野:
- 循環器病学
- 神経学
- 集中治療医学
背景:
- 発作性交感神経過活動症(PSH)は、通常、重度の脳損傷に関連している。
- PSHは、心原性ショック患者では以前に文書化されていなかった。
- 本研究は、拡張型心筋症および心原性ショック患者におけるPSHの症例を提示する。
研究 の 目的:
- 心原性ショックの文脈におけるPSHの症例を報告する。
- 心原性ショックとPSHの潜在的な関連を探る。
- 心原性ショック患者の鑑別診断においてPSHを考慮することの重要性を強調する。
主な方法:
- 心原性ショックおよび拡張型心筋症を有する60歳男性の症例提示。
- 発熱、頻脈、頻呼吸、異常な筋緊張を含む自律神経症状のモニタリング。
- 他の治療法が無効であった後、疑われるPSHに対してガバペンチンの開始。
主要な成果:
- 入院4日目にPSHを示唆する症状を呈した。
- 27日目に開始されたガバペンチン治療により、PSH症状は徐々に改善した。
- PSHの診断と治療により、患者の状態は改善した。
結論:
- PSHは、明らかな脳損傷がなくても、心原性ショックにおける脳灌流および自律神経調節不全によって引き起こされる可能性がある。
- 発作性頻脈、頻呼吸、および発熱を呈する心原性ショック患者の鑑別診断においては、PSHを考慮すべきである。
- PSHの適時認識と治療は、患者の転帰の改善につながる可能性がある。
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