Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity after Cardiac Arrest in a Young Male

Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity (PSH) is a syndrome of an increased sympathetic drive after brain injury. PSH has been previously referred with multiple different names. It is seen most commonly after a traumatic brain injury, but rarely it has been reported after infections, brain malignancies...

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Autores principales: Singh, Tanveer, Arora, Tanureet K, Bedi, Prabhjot, Kashinath, Sanjana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6150751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30254817
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3028
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author Singh, Tanveer
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description Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity (PSH) is a syndrome of an increased sympathetic drive after brain injury. PSH has been previously referred with multiple different names. It is seen most commonly after a traumatic brain injury, but rarely it has been reported after infections, brain malignancies, and brain injury after cardiac arrest. We present a case of a young male who developed PSH after cardiac arrest and will discuss clinical features and various management options.
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spelling pubmed-61507512018-09-25 Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity after Cardiac Arrest in a Young Male Singh, Tanveer Arora, Tanureet K Bedi, Prabhjot Kashinath, Sanjana Cureus Internal Medicine Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity (PSH) is a syndrome of an increased sympathetic drive after brain injury. PSH has been previously referred with multiple different names. It is seen most commonly after a traumatic brain injury, but rarely it has been reported after infections, brain malignancies, and brain injury after cardiac arrest. We present a case of a young male who developed PSH after cardiac arrest and will discuss clinical features and various management options. Cureus 2018-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6150751/ /pubmed/30254817 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3028 Text en Copyright © 2018, Singh et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity after Cardiac Arrest in a Young Male
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title_short Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity after Cardiac Arrest in a Young Male
title_sort paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity after cardiac arrest in a young male
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6150751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30254817
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3028
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