Contemporary cardiovascular concerns after spinal cord injury: Mechanisms, maladaptations, and management

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 1927-1942

  Phillips, Aaron A ^a,b   Krassioukov, Andrei V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

autonomic dysfunction; cardiac; cerebral; paraplegia; tetreplagia

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A; CAPTOPRIL; FLUDROCORTISONE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; LIPID; MIDODRINE; NIFEDIPINE; PRAZOSIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ARTERIAL DYSFUNCTION; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FLUID INTAKE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEART; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MORBIDITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROGENIC SHOCK; NONHUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; ORTHOSTATIC INTOLERANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL INACTIVITY; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE CELL; PRESYNCOPE; REHABILITATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SHOCK; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STANDING; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84949743401     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2015.3903     Document Type: Review

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