Book Review: Neurogenic Hypertension

NEUROGENIC HYPERTENSION: REPORT OF FIVE CASES TO HIGHLIGHT THE CONTROVERSY

The entity of "neurogenic hypertension" is defined as arterial hypertension caused explicitly by derangement of the intricate network of the central nervous system. Among 193 cases of cranial rhizopathies operated on between 1984 and 1995 at this center, 5 cases of established arterial hypertension with concomitant rhizopathies also underwent ventrolateral medullary decompression. The elev...

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Neurogenic hypertension revisited.

Sixteen years ago I reviewed (Dickinson, 1965) the evidence that essential hypertension was neurogenically initiated and suggested that its primary cause was a rise in the minimal resistance of the arteries supplying the brain stem. At that time very few investigators supported a neurogenic hypothesis andthose that did believed that the neurogenic stimulus was psychological, rather than organic...

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