Psychogene Hyperventilation - Replik

Effects of Hyperventilation Can hyperventilation cause syncope?

Hyperventilation Syndrome

MOST PHYSICIANS are quite familiar with the isolated attack of acute hyperventilation that is characterized by dramatic overbreathingand classically culminates in tetany. Although terrifying to the patient, and almost equally alarming to any onlooker, these attacks are usually brief and without serious medical sequelae. Recently we have come to recognize a chronic hyperventilation pattern that ...

Hyperventilation in postural hypotension.

Hyperventilation and exhaustion syndrome

Chronic stress is among the most common diagnoses in Sweden, most commonly in the form of exhaustion syndrome (ICD-10 classification - F43.8). The majority of patients with this syndrome also have disturbed breathing (hyperventilation). The aim of this study was to investigate the association between hyperventilation and exhaustion syndrome. Thirty patients with exhaustion syndrome and 14 healt...

Hyperventilation in Arteriolar Hypertension.

Raab (1), in a study dealing with the effect of hyperventilation on the blood pressure of patients with arteriolar hypertension, concluded that there is a direct and constant relationship between the level of the blood pressure in patients with essential hypertension and the extent to which the CO2 tension of the arterial blood (alveolar CO2 tension) is lowered. The assumption was that hyperven...