Pharmacological treatments of postural hypotension

Non-pharmacological treatments for orthostatic hypotension.

In a recent issue of Age and Ageing, Fan et al. report negative results in a randomised controlled trial on the use of sleeping in the head-up position (SHU) in the treatment of orthostatic hypotension (OH) [1]. We ask if this treatment or other non-pharmacological therapies should be recommended for use in elderly patients? Postural or Orthostatic Hypotension is a common clinical problem affec...

Hyperventilation in postural hypotension.

Postural Hypotension and Anhidrosis

influence nerve growth factor synthesis in primary rat astrocytes. Heterogeneous cardiac sympathetic denervation and decreased myocardial nerve growth factor in streptozotocin diabetic rats: implications for cardiac sympathetic dysinnervation complicating diabetes. Stimulation of nerve growth factor synthesis/ secretion in mouse astroglial cells by coenzymes. A fluorescence-based method for mea...

New therapies for postural hypotension.

Patients with deterioration of the autonomic nervous system can have unexpected or even paradoxical reactions to common cardiovascular drugs. For example, patients with severe neuropathy of the peripheral autonomic system can have a pressor response to phenylephrine eye drops and a paradoxical increase in blood pressure (BP) from the antihypertensive clonidine.1 Currently, the only approved the...

Two Cases of Postural Hypotension Showing

Of the two forms of orthostatic hypotension, one, the arterial orthostatic anemia or hypotonic regulatory disturbance (1), is characterized by an increase in the pulse rate and a fall of the systolic blood pressure, with or without a rise in the diastolic pressure, upon change from the recumbent to the erect posture. These circulatory reactions are due to an increased activity of the sympatheti...