Excessive gravitational blood pooling caused by impaired venous tone is the predominant non-cardiac mechanism of orthostatic intolerance

Clinical Science

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 277-285

  Streeten, David H P ^a,b   Scullard, Thomas F ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b University Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic insufficiency; Orthostatic hypotension; Orthostatic intolerance; Orthostatic tachycardia; Venous pooling

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INNERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHYCARDIA; VASOCONSTRICTION; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN TONE; VENOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0029913155     PISSN: 01435221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/cs0900277     Document Type: Article

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