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Effect of Nursing Interventions on the Severity of Orthostatic Hypotension among Older Adults Residing in Assisted Living Facilities [PDF]

Alexandria Scientific Nursing Journal, 2021
Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is a predominant insufficiently evaluated and treated problemamong older people. In this context, it is important for the gerontological nurses to assess and manageOH to avoid its serious consequences.
Thoraya Abdelaziz,, Nagwa Ibrahim, Abeer Gamaa   +2 more
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Postural changes in optic nerve and optic nerve sheath diameters in postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and spontaneous intracranial hypotension: A cohort study.

PLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundPostural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome is a disorder of the autonomic nervous system. Approximately 30% of patients experience orthostatic headaches.
Debora Cipriani, Belén Rodriguez, Levin Häni, Raya Zimmermann, Jens Fichtner, Christian T Ulrich, Andreas Raabe, Jürgen Beck, Werner J Z'Graggen   +8 more
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Squamous Carcinoma of the Lung Presenting as Migraine-Type Headache: A Case Report

Case Reports in Oncology, 2015
Introduction: Orthostatic hypotension has long been recognised as a paraneoplastic effect of lung cancer. Lung cancer presenting with orthostatic hypotension and migraine-type headaches has not been previously described in the literature.
Eswaran Waran
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ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION IN PSYCHIATRY (A LITERATURE REVIEW WITH AUTHORS’ COMMENTS)

Siberian Journal of Life Sciences and Agriculture, 2019
Purpose. To provide the reader with a thorough overview of epidemiology, potential risk factors, etiological causes, and pathogenetic mechanisms of the development of orthostatic hypotension in psychiatry.
Roman Aleksandrovich Bekker, Yuriy Vitalevich Bykov   +1 more
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Orthostatic hypotension for the cardiologist [PDF]

Current Opinion in Cardiology, 2018
Orthostatic hypotension is a phenomenon commonly encountered in a cardiologist's clinical practice that has significant diagnostic and prognostic value for a cardiologist. Given the mounting evidence associating cardiovascular morbidity and mortality with orthostatic hypotension, cardiologists will play an increasing role in treating and managing ...
Philip L, Mar, Satish R, Raj
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The management of orthostatic hypotension in Parkinson's disease

Frontiers in Neurology, 2013
Orthostatic hypotension is a common and disabling symptom affecting Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients. We present the effect of the different therapies commonly used to manage Parkinson’s disease on this clinical manifestation.
Alvaro eSanchez-Ferro, Julián eBenito-León, Juan Carlos eGomez-Esteban   +2 more
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Orthostatic hypotension in patients of 60 years and older with arterial hypertension: an association between arterial stiffness and frailty

Alʹmanah Kliničeskoj Mediciny, 2021
Aim: To assess an association between orthostatic hypotension and arterial stiffness, measured by the cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI), in a group of patients≥60 years of age with arterial hypertension and frailty.Materials and methods: The study ...
A. V. Luzina, N. K. Runikhina, O. N. Tkacheva, S. N. Lysenkov, Yu. V. Kotovskaya, K. A. Eruslanova   +5 more
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Fludrocortisone for orthostatic hypotension

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2017
Orthostatic hypotension is an excessive fall in blood pressure (BP) while standing and is the result of a decrease in cardiac output or defective or inadequate vasoconstrictor mechanisms. Fludrocortisone is a mineralocorticoid that increases blood volume and blood pressure. Fludrocortisone is considered the first- or second-line pharmacological therapy
Stephanie, Veazie, Kim, Peterson, Yasmin, Ansari, Kathryn A, Chung, Christopher H, Gibbons, Satish R, Raj, Mark, Helfand   +6 more
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A Two‐Stage Questionnaire and Actigraphy Screening for iRBD in a Multicenter Retrospective Cohort

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Isolated rapid‐eye‐movement sleep behavior disorder is a prodromal marker of synucleinopathies. However, most cases remain undiagnosed due to the insufficient predictive value of questionnaires and limited access to confirmatory video‐polysomnography. We assessed a two‐stage screening strategy combining a brief questionnaire on rapid‐
Caleb A. Massimi, Giorgio Ricciardiello Mejia, Andre Metzger, Kang Hyun Ryu, Salonee Marwaha, Eva Grzegorczyk, Li Zhou, Eliana Jacobs, Boris Gilyadov, Claudia Kunney, Liqhwa Ncube, Ankit Parekh, Emmanuel Mignot, Fanny M. Elahi, Joseph Winer, Kathleen Poston, Andreas Brink‐Kjaer, Emmanuel H. During   +17 more
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Characterizing Cutaneous α‐Synuclein Deposition and Seeding Activity in Parkinson's Disease Subtypes

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Cutaneous phosphorylated α‐synuclein (p‐syn) and α‐synuclein seeding activity are promising biomarkers for Parkinson's disease (PD), but their clinical value remains uncertain due to disease heterogeneity. This study evaluates these two biomarkers in PD patients to inform phenotype‐specific diagnosis and disease severity assessment ...
Yuting Jin, Tianyuan Yang, Minglei Liu, Haiyang Luo, Jing Yuan, Ke Zhang, Xinsheng Han, Jing Yang, Yuming Xu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source