Paradoxical vasodilation during lower body negative pressure in patients with vasodepressor carotid sinus syndrome

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 853-857

  Mangoni, Arduino A ^a   Ouldred, Emma ^b   Allain, Theresa J ^b   Close, Jacqueline C T ^b   Hilton, Diarmuid ^b   Swift, Cameron G ^b   Lyons, Declan ^b   Jackson, Stephen H D ^b  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adrenergic receptors; Autonomic nervous system; Baroreceptors; Carotid sinus syndrome; Vasodepressor form

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID SINUS SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSORECEPTOR; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ADULT; AGED; BAROREFLEX; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; LOWER EXTREMITY; NOREPINEPHRINE; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; VASODILATION;

EID: 0037639723     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2389.2003.51269.x     Document Type: Article

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