The intraarterial blood pressure monitoring in the evaluation of patients with dizziness and/or fainting.
Ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring has been extensively utilized, so far, for studying BP profile and hypotensive treatment in arterial hypertension. In this paper, preliminary data will be reported from a clinical study on the possible contribution of the combined ECG and BP monitoring in clarifying mechanisms of dizziness in patients with multiple or complex cardiovascular problems. Results are shown of three patients with ischaemia, arrhythmias and/or episodes of hypotension, and of three patients with borderline hypertension and marked fluctuations of BP.
D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000503:physiopathology; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000503:physiopathology; D004244:Dizziness / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000503:physiopathology; D007024:Hypotension, Orthostatic / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D013575:Syncope / Q000503:physiopathology*