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Intact blood pressure, but not sympathetic, responsiveness to sympathoexcitatory stimuli in a patient with unilateral carotid body resection

Despite rapidly growing interest in the therapeutic resection of the carotid body (CB) chemoreceptors, few physiologic studies exist on the consequences of unilateral CB resection. We present a case of an otherwise healthy postmenopausal female who underwent unilateral CB resection for a paraganglio...

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Main Authors: Larson, Kathryn F., Limberg, Jacqueline K., Baker, Sarah E., Joyner, Michael J., Curry, Timothy B.
Format: Online Article Text
Language:English
Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5392508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28364029
http://dx.doi.org/10.14814/phy2.13212