Usefulness of leg-crossing for maintaining blood pressure in a sitting position in patients with orthostatic hypotension--case reports.
The authors report a case with idiopathic orthostatic hypotension in which the patient prevents his blood pressure from falling to a symptomatic level by leg-crossing in a sitting position. Including 4 other patients with orthostatic hypotension and 5 normal subjects, their study found that the changes in blood pressure with leg-crossing inversely correlated with those induced by assuming seated posture from a supine position. Leg-crossing may, therefore, be one of the useful nonpharmacologic measures for maintaining blood pressure in a sitting position in patients with orthostatic hypotension.
Takishita
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Third Department of Internal Medicine, University of the Ryukyus School of Medicine, Okinawa, Japan.
Touma
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T
Kawazoe
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N
Muratani
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H
Fukiyama
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K
D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007024:Hypotension, Orthostatic / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D007866:Leg; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011187:Posture