Hypotension Unawareness in Profound Orthostatic Hypotension

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 574-580

  Arbogast, Steven D ^a   Alshekhlee, Amer ^a   Hussain, Zulfiqar ^b   McNeeley, Kevin ^a   Chelimsky, Thomas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dysautonomia; Orthostatic hypotension

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSAUTONOMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TILT TABLE TEST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACK PAIN; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 66149088808     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2008.10.040     Document Type: Article

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