PMID: 9531450Apr 8, 1998Paper

Visceral orthostatic hypotension in patients with severe autonomic dysfunction

Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System
H TerazakiM Ando

Abstract

Although changes in the blood flow of the cerebral vessels and the peripheral vessels in the extremities after changing body postures have been well examined in patients with orthostatic hypotension (OH), such changes in visceral vessels have not been well investigated. To elucidate the effect of autonomic dysfunctions on changes in the abdominal blood flow, the blood flow velocity of the portal vein was measured by Doppler ultrasonography in 11 patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) (Met30), 3 with pandysautonomia, 1 with Shy-Drager syndrome, and 10 healthy controls, in the supine and at the upright position. Among the 15 patients with the above-mentioned autonomic disorders, 5 of the patients showed a marked decrease in blood flow after standing, and one of these 5 patients exhibited transient hepatic and intestinal ischemia during intensive rehabilitation because of a severe decrease in visceral blood flow. Another 7 patients exhibited moderate decreases in the blood flow after standing. In contrast, no such change was observed in the 10 healthy controls. The FAP patients with L-threo-3,4-dihydroxyphenylserine (L-threo-DOPS) administration showed no significant correlation between the degree of OH and the de...Continue Reading

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