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Cardiovascular Dysfunction Presenting as Autonomic Dysreflexia in a Patient with Spinal Cord Injury

Autonomic dysreflexia (AD) is a medical emergency that is characterized by hypertension as an autonomic response to noxious stimuli in patients with a history of spinal cord injury at the level of T6 or above. We present the case of a 31-year-old Caucasian male with a history of spinal cord injury a...

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Autores principales: Qavi, Ahmed H, Assad, Salman, Shabbir, Wardha, Kundi, Maryam, Habib, Maham, Babar, Sumbal, Zahid, Mehr
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5590769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28929040
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1456