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11696263

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-11-6
pubmed:abstractText
Upright posture requires rapid and effective circulatory and neurologic compensations to maintain blood pressure and consciousness. Although it has been recognized over the past 100 years or more that the act of standing may cause hypotension in patients with autonomic dysfunction, only recently several of the pathophysiologic mechanisms resulting in orthostatic intolerance have been discovered. In patients with orthostatic hypotension, failure of reflex vasoconstriction causes pooling of blood in the legs during standing. Not everyone with a postural blood pressure drop requires treatment, nor does everyone with posturally induced symptoms have orthostatic hypotension. This review will discuss current knowledge of a broad, heterogeneous group of disturbances in the autonomic nervous system, each of which is manifested by hypotension, orthostatic intolerance, and often syncope.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1061-5377
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
9
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
339-47
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Orthostatic hypotension, 2001.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Electrocardiography and Electrophysiology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Juan Badiano 1 Seccion XVI, D F 14080, Mexico.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review