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The properties of cardio-respiratory coupling (CRC) are affected by various pathological conditions related to the cardiovascular and/or respiratory systems. In heart failure, one of the most common cardiac pathological conditions, the degree of CRC changes primarily depend on the type of heart-rhythm alterations. In this work, we investigated CRC in heart-failure patients, applying measures from information theory, i.e., Granger Causality (), Transfer Entropy () and Cross Entropy (), to quantify the directed coupling and causality between cardiac () and respiratory () time series. Patients were divided into three groups depending on their heart rhythm (sinus rhythm and presence of low/high number of ventricular extrasystoles) and were studied also after cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), distinguishing responders and non-responders to the therapy. The information-theoretic analysis of bidirectional cardio-respiratory interactions in HF patients revealed the strong effect of nonlinear components in the (high number of ventricular extrasystoles) and in the time series (respiratory sinus arrhythmia) as well as in their causal interactions. We showed that as a linear model measure is not sensitive to both nonlinear components and only model free measures as and may quantify them. CRT responders mainly exhibit unchanged asymmetry in the values, with statistically significant dominance of the information flow from to over the opposite flow from to , before and after CRT. In non-responders this asymmetry was statistically significant only after CRT. Our results indicate that the success of CRT is related to corresponding information transfer between the cardiac and respiratory signal quantified at baseline measurements, which could contribute to a better selection of patients for this type of therapy.
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