One Small Step for a Patient, One Giant Leap for Orthostatic Hypotension

A 52-year-old man with ischemic cardiomyopathy presented with progressive, severe orthostatic hypotension refractory to medical therapy. Standard abdominal and leg compression devices were used without success. A novel, inflatable abdominal compression device was created that alleviated the patient&...

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Autores principales: Coniglio, Amanda C, Kittipibul, Veraprapas, Pelligra, Ralph, Richardson, Eric S, Holley, Christopher L, Fudim, Marat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9759206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36540476
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31612
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author Coniglio, Amanda C
Kittipibul, Veraprapas
Pelligra, Ralph
Richardson, Eric S
Holley, Christopher L
Fudim, Marat
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Pelligra, Ralph
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description A 52-year-old man with ischemic cardiomyopathy presented with progressive, severe orthostatic hypotension refractory to medical therapy. Standard abdominal and leg compression devices were used without success. A novel, inflatable abdominal compression device was created that alleviated the patient's symptoms and maintained his blood pressure.
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spelling pubmed-97592062022-12-19 One Small Step for a Patient, One Giant Leap for Orthostatic Hypotension Coniglio, Amanda C Kittipibul, Veraprapas Pelligra, Ralph Richardson, Eric S Holley, Christopher L Fudim, Marat Cureus Cardiology A 52-year-old man with ischemic cardiomyopathy presented with progressive, severe orthostatic hypotension refractory to medical therapy. Standard abdominal and leg compression devices were used without success. A novel, inflatable abdominal compression device was created that alleviated the patient's symptoms and maintained his blood pressure. Cureus 2022-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9759206/ /pubmed/36540476 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31612 Text en Copyright © 2022, Coniglio et al. https://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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Coniglio, Amanda C
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Pelligra, Ralph
Richardson, Eric S
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One Small Step for a Patient, One Giant Leap for Orthostatic Hypotension
title One Small Step for a Patient, One Giant Leap for Orthostatic Hypotension
title_full One Small Step for a Patient, One Giant Leap for Orthostatic Hypotension
title_fullStr One Small Step for a Patient, One Giant Leap for Orthostatic Hypotension
title_full_unstemmed One Small Step for a Patient, One Giant Leap for Orthostatic Hypotension
title_short One Small Step for a Patient, One Giant Leap for Orthostatic Hypotension
title_sort one small step for a patient, one giant leap for orthostatic hypotension
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9759206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36540476
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31612
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