title: Usefulness of leg-crossing for maintaining blood pressure in a sitting position in patients with orthostatic hypotension--case reports.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Third Department of Internal Medicine, University of the Ryukyus School of Medicine, Okinawa, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takishita
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Touma
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kawazoe
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Muratani
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fukiyama
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007024:Hypotension, Orthostatic / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D007866:Leg; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011187:Posture