Management approaches to hypertension in autonomic failure

Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 481-485

  Arnold, Amy C ^a   Biaggioni, Italo ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

autonomic nervous system; blood pressure; hypertension; multiple system atrophy; pure autonomic failure

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ATOMOXETINE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CLONIDINE; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; EYE DROPS; FLUDROCORTISONE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDRALAZINE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; MINOXIDIL; NIFEDIPINE; SILDENAFIL; TRIMETAPHAN; VASODILATOR AGENT; YOHIMBINE;

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; COMPRESSION GARMENT; DISEASE CONTROL; EVENING DOSAGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MORNING DOSAGE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PURE AUTONOMIC FAILURE; REVIEW; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; SUPINE HYPERTENSION;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; SUPINE POSITION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 84865409258     PISSN: 10624821     EISSN: 14736543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNH.0b013e328356c52f     Document Type: Review

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