Pharmacotherapy of autonomic failure

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 279-286

  Shibao, Cyndya ^a   Okamoto, Luis ^a   Biaggioni, Italo ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic agents; Autonomic failure; Multiple system atrophy; Pharmacology; Pure autonomic failure; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ACARBOSE; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; ATOMOXETINE; CAFFEINE; CLONIDINE; DESMOPRESSIN; DIURETIC AGENT; ERGOTAMINE; FLUDROCORTISONE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDRALAZINE; MIDODRINE; MINOXIDIL; NIFEDIPINE; NOVEL ERYTHROPOIESIS STIMULATING PROTEIN; OCTREOTIDE; PLACEBO; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE; SILDENAFIL; THREO 3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLSERINE; YOHIMBINE;

AMYLOIDOSIS; ANEMIA; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BEDTIME DOSAGE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPRESSION GARMENT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; EVENING DOSAGE; FLUID INTAKE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTPRANDIAL HYPOTENSION; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALT INTAKE; SCREENING; SODIUM RETENTION; SUPINE HYPERTENSION; SUPINE POSITION; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WATER RETENTION;

DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PURE AUTONOMIC FAILURE;

EID: 84859800245     PISSN: 01637258     EISSN: 1879016X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2011.05.009     Document Type: Review

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