Unstable baseline blood pressure in chronic tetraplegia

Spinal Cord

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 92-95

  Frisbie, J H ^a,b  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic dysreflexia; Orthostatic hypotension; Paraplegia; Spinal cord injury; Tetraplegia; Unstable blood pressure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NIGHT; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SITTING; SPACE FLIGHT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STANDARD; SUPINE POSITION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; VARIANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; QUADRIPLEGIA;

EID: 33846043217     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3101920     Document Type: Article

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