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Orthostatic hypotension in older people: considerations, diagnosis and management.
Clinical medicine (London), 2021 Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is very common in older people and is encountered daily in emergency departments and medical admissions units. It is associated with a higher risk of falls, fractures, dementia and death, so prompt recognition and treatment ...
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Orthostatic Hypotension and Concomitant Paraneoplastic Syndromes: A Case Report
European Medical Journal, 2023 This case study discusses the incidence of a paraneoplastic autonomic neuropathy in an elderly male who had an otherwise negative work-up for their aetiology of orthostatic hypotension.
Bharati Dev, Ashwin Varkey, Hrede Afsana
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Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
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The impact of autonomic dysfunction on survival in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease with dementia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 INTRODUCTION: Autonomic dysfunction is a well-known feature in neurodegenerative dementias, especially common in α-synucleinopathies like dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease with dementia.
Kajsa Stubendorff +3 more
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Management of Orthostatic Hypotension [PDF]
CONTINUUM: Lifelong Learning in Neurology, 2020 ABSTRACT PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article reviews the management of orthostatic hypotension with emphasis on neurogenic orthostatic hypotension. RECENT FINDINGS Establishing whether the cause of orthostatic hypotension is a pathologic lesion in sympathetic neurons (ie ...
Horacio Kaufmann, Jose-Alberto Palma
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Orthostatic hypotension. Part 2: diagnosis and treatment
Инновационная медицина Кубани, 2020 Due to its asymptomatic nature, orthostatic hypotension can be diagnosed only by means of orthostatic challenge. One should try to define the causes of orthostatic hypotension in every single case because treating illness that lead to orthostatic ...
G. A. Golovina +4 more
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Orthostatic arterial hypotension [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Medical Practice, 2017 Orthostatic hypotension is a persistent decrease of systolic blood pressure by at least 20 mm Hg and/or diastolic blood pressure by at least 10 mm Hg in the first 3 minutes upon standing.
Camelia C. DIACONU +3 more
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Drug-Related Orthostatic Hypotension: Beyond Anti-Hypertensive Medications
Drugs & Aging, 2020 Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is an abnormal blood pressure response to standing, which is associated with an increased risk of adverse outcomes such as syncope, falls, cognitive impairment, and mortality.
G. Rivasi +4 more
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Movement Disorders, 2020 The differential diagnosis between multiple system atrophy parkinsonism type (MSA‐P) and Parkinson's disease with orthostatic hypotension (PD+OH) is difficult because the 2 diseases have a similar clinical picture. The aim of this study is to distinguish
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Effects of Intensive Blood Pressure Treatment on Orthostatic Hypotension
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2020 BACKGROUND Although intensive blood pressure (BP)-lowering treatment reduces risk for cardiovascular disease, there are concerns that it might cause orthostatic hypotension (OH).
S. Juraschek +19 more
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