Catecholamine-induced hypertension in lumbosacral paraplegia: Five case reports

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 222-225

  Roche, Walter J ^a,b   Nwofia, Chije ^a   Gittler, Michelle ^a   Patel, Rakesh ^a   Yarkony, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b #400 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Catecholamines; Clonidine; Hypertension; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; CLONIDINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CATECHOLAMINE URINE LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; PARAPLEGIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0033971719     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/apmr.2000.0810222     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Senard JM, Arias A, Berlan M, Tran MA, Rascol A, Montastruc JL. Pharmacological evidence of alpha 1- and alpha 2-adrenergic supersensitivity in orthostatic hypotension due to spinal cord injury: a case report. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 1991;41:593-6.
2. Claus-Walker J, Halstead LS. Metabolic and endocrine changes in spinal cord injury: II (section 1). Consequences of partial decentralization of the autonomic nervous system. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1982;63:569-75.
3. Debarge O, Christensen NJ, Corbett JL, Eidelman BH, Frankel HL, Mathias CJ. Plasma catecholamines in tetraplegics. Paraplegia 1974;12:44-9.
4. Sell GH, Naftchi NE, Lowman EW, Rusk HA. Autonomie hyperreflexia and catecholamine metabolites in spinal cord injury. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1972;53:415-17.
5. Frankel HL, Michaelis LS. Golding DR, Beral V. The blood pressure in paraplegia. I. Paraplegia 1972;10:193-200.
6. Imai K, Kadowaki T, Aizawa Y, Fukutomi K. Morbidity rates of complications in persons with spinal cord injury according to the site of injury and with special reference to hypertension. Paraplegia 1994;32:246-52.
7. Reid JL, Wing LM, Mathias CJ, Frankel HL, Neill E. The central hypotensive effect of clonidine. Studies in tetraplegic subjects. Clin Pharmacol Ther 1977;21:375-81.
8. Bravo EL, Tarazi RC, Fouad FM, Vidt DG, Gifford RW Jr. Clonidine-suppression test: a useful aid in the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma. N Engl J Med 1981;305:623-6.
9. American Spinal Injury Association. International standards for neurological and functional classification of spinal cord injury, revised 1992. Chicago: American Spinal Injury Association; 1992.
10. Ho RM, Freed MM. Persistent hypertension in young spinal cord injured individuals resulting from aortic repair. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1991;72:743-6.
11. Freed MM, Bakst HJ, Barrie DL. Life expectancy, survival rates, and causes of death in civilian patients with spinal cord trauma. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1966;47:457-63.
12. Ebel A. Discussion. In: The pathology in selected cases of spinal cord injury. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Clinical Spinal Cord Injury Conference; 1960 Oct 18-20; Washington, DC. Washington (DC): US Government Priinting Office; 1960. p. 115.
13. Ramos MU, Freed MM, Kayne HL. Resting blood pressures of spinal cord injury patients. Spinal Cord Inj Digest 1981;(Fall):19-25.
14. Christensen NJ, Frankel HL, Mathias CJ, Spalding JM. Proceedings: enhanced pressor response to noradrenaline in human subjects with chronic sympathetic decentralization. J Physiol (Lond) 1975;252:39P-40P.
15. Mathias CJ, Frankel HL, Christensen NJ, Spalding JM. Enhanced pressor response to noradrenaline in patients with cervical spinal cord transection. Brain 1976;99:757-70.
16. Claus-Walker J, Campos RJ, Carter RE. Hypertensive episodes in quadriplegic patients: neuroendocrine mechanisms. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1972;53:47-50.
17. Wright KC, Agre JC, Wilson BC, Theologides A. Autonomic dysreflexia in a paraplegic man with catecholamine-secreting neuroblastoma. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1986;67:566-7.
18. Mathias CJ. Role of sympathetic efferent nerves in blood pressure regulation and in hypertension. Hypertension 1991;18:22-30.
19. Naftchi NE, Lowman EE, Fleischer AJ, Rusk HA. Faulty regulation of catecholamine metabolism in spinal cord injury [abstract]. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1970;51:726.
20. Bingham WG, Ruffolo R, Friedman SJ. Catecholamine levels in the injured spinal cord of monkeys. J Neurosurg 1975;42:174-8.
21. Osterholm JL, Mathews GJ, Irvin JD, Angelakos ET. A review of altered norepinephrine metabolism attending severe spinal injury: results of alpha methyl tyrosine treatment and preliminary histofluorescent studies. Proc Veterans Adm Spinal Cord Inj Conf 1971;18: 17-21.
22. Naftchi NE, Lowman EW, Sell GH, Rusk HA. Peripheral circulation and catecholamine metabolism in paraplegia and quadriplegia. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1972;53:357-61.
23. Guttmann L, Munro AF, Robinson R, Walsh JJ. Effect of tilting on the cardiovascular responses and plasma catecholamine levels in spinal man. Paraplegia 1963;2:4-18.
24. Frewin DB, Levitt M, Myers SJ, Co CC, Downey JA. Catecholamine responses in paraplegia. Paraplegia 1973;11:238-44.
25. Carlsson A, Falck B, Fuxe K, Hillarp N-A. Cellular localization of monoamines in spinal cord. Acta Physiol Scand 1964;60:112-9.
26. Moskowitz MA, Wurtman RJ. Catecholamines and neurologic diseases (second of two parts). N Engl J Med 1975;293:332-8.
27. Vise WM, Yashon D, Hunt WE. Mechanisms of norepinephrine accumulation within sites of spinal cord injury. J Neurosurg 1974;40:76-82.
28. Osterholm JL. Noradrenergic mediation of traumatic spinal cord autodestruction. Life Sci 1974;14:1363-84.
29. Rodriguez M, Sahgal V, Subramani V. Neurotransmitters in spinal cord injury. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1977;58:547-54.
30. Schoultz TW, DeLuca DC. Alterations in spinal cord norepinephrine levels following experimentally produced trauma in normal and adrenalectomized cats. Life Sci 1974;15:1485-95.
31. Claus-Walker J, Halstead LS. Metabolic and endocrine changes in spinal cord injury: I. The nervous system before and after transection of the spinal cord. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1981;62:595-601.
32. Wortsman J, Burns G, Van Beek AL, Couch J. Hyperadrenergic state after trauma to the neuroaxis. JAMA 1980;243:1459-60.