Volume : IX, Issue : III, March - 2019

Cardiovascular Autonomic Dysfunction in Patients of Orthostatic Hypotension

Tripathi Sumeet, Khandelwal Ekta

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The autonomic dysfunction is an important cause of orthostatic hypotension. The patients of orthostatic hypotension may or may not be symptomatic. The study was conducted to evaluate cardiovascular autonomic status patients of orthostatic hypotension. The study was conducted in 15 patients of orthostatic hypotension and 15 age matched subjects. The heart rate variability was assessed from 5 min resting supine ECG. The parasympathetic and sympathetic autonomic reactivity was assessed using Ewing‘s battery of tests. The heart rate variability and measures of autonomic reactivity were lower in the patients with orthostatic hypotension as compared to control. The parasympathetic component of the heart rate variability and reactivity test was most affected in patients. The autonomic dysfunction is common in patients of orthostatic hypotension. The autonomic profile of symptomatic patients is not different from that of asymptomatic patients indicating that additional deficits of cereal autoregulation play a crucial in development of symptoms.

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CARDIOVASCULAR AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION IN PATIENTS OF ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION, Tripathi Sumeet, Khandelwal Ekta INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-3 | March-2019

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