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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, Satish R Raj, Mark Helfand, Yasmin Ansari, Christopher H. Gibbons, Kathryn A. Chung   +6 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: An overlooked but clinically decisive entity

Journal of the Indian Academy of Geriatrics, 2022
Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is defined as a drop of >20 mm Hg of systolic or >10 mm Hg of diastolic blood pressure (BP) within 3 min of standing from lying position. It is a common geriatric syndrome caused by impaired orthostatic response of BP.
Gunja Jain, Sunny Singhal, Laxmi Kant Goyal, Ajay Mathur   +3 more
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Acute small fiber neuropathy after Oxford‐AstraZeneca ChAdOx1‐S vaccination: A report of three cases and review of the literature

Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 325-329, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Small fiber neuropathy usually presents with gradual and progressive chronic length‐dependent pain. Acute small fiber neuropathy is rarely reported. Three patients with acute onset neuropathic pain after Oxford‐AstraZeneca ChAdOx1‐S vaccination are described.
Molly G. Abbott, Zahra Allawi, Monika Hofer, Olaf Ansorge, Stefen Brady, Ricardo Fadic, Gustavo Torres, Ravi Knight, Margarita Calvo, David L. H. Bennett, Andreas C. Themistocleous   +10 more
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Severe distinct dysautonomia in RFC1‐related disease associated with Parkinsonism

Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 311-315, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Biallelic repeat expansions in replication factor C subunit 1 (RFC1) have recently been found to cause cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy and vestibular areflexia syndrome (CANVAS). Additional features that have been described include Parkinsonism and a multiple system atrophy (MSA)‐like syndrome.
Christopher J. Record, Rana Alnasser Alsukhni, Riccardo Curro, Diego Kaski, John S. Rubin, Huw R. Morris, Andrea Cortese, Valeria Iodice, Mary M. Reilly   +8 more
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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 reactions and cognitive dysfunctions in elderly and senile patients with arterial hypertension [PDF]

Системные гипертензии, 2019
Aim. To study the relationship of orthostatic hypotensive reactions (OHR), detected using active (AOT) and passive orthostatic tests (POT) with the state of cognitive functions in patients with arterial hypertension (AH) in older age groups.
Irina V Atyunina, Elena V Oschepkova, Anatolii N Rogoza, Nataliia V Lazareva   +3 more
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Spontaneous intracranial hypotension : two steroid-responsive cases [PDF]

, 2018
Purpose: Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is characterised by orthostatic headache, low cerebrospinal fluid pressure and diffuse pachymeningeal enhancement after intravenous gadolinium contrast administration.
Alexis, Zandolino, Andrea, Manto, Antonietta, Serino, Camilla, Russo, Giacomo, Fenza, Vincenzo, Buono   +5 more
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Liver‐directed drugs for transthyretin‐mediated amyloidosis

Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 228-237, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Transthyretin‐mediated amyloidosis (ATTR) is a rare, under‐recognized, progressively debilitating, fatal disease caused by the aggregation and extracellular deposition of amyloid transthyretin (TTR) fibrils in multiple organs and tissues throughout the body.
Thomas H. Brannagan 3rd, John L. Berk, Julian D. Gillmore, Mathew S. Maurer, Márcia Waddington‐Cruz, Marianna Fontana, Ahmad Masri, Laura Obici, Michela Brambatti, Brenda F. Baker, Lisa A. Hannan, Gustavo Buchele, Nick J. Viney, Teresa Coelho, Jose Nativi‐Nicolau   +14 more
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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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