Cardiac Consequences of Autonomic Dysreflexia in Spinal Cord Injury
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Cardiac Consequences of Autonomic Dysreflexia in Spinal Cord Injury.
Autonomic dysreflexia (AD), which describes episodic hypertension, is highly prevalent in people with spinal cord injury (SCI). In non-SCI, primary hypertension depresses cardiac contractile reserve via β-adrenergic mechanisms. In this study, we investigated whether AD contributes to the impairment in cardiac contractile function that accompanies SCI. We induced SCI in rodents and stratified th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hypertension
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0194-911X,1524-4563
DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.116.07919