A walking disaster: a case of incomplete spinal cord injury with symptomatic orthostatic hypotension.
Eight months post-injury, an ambulatory 58-year-old male with an incomplete spinal cord injury experienced syncope and a 52-mmHg drop in his systolic blood pressure during a tilt-table assessment. This case study highlights the necessity to examine autonomic function in all cases of spinal cord injury, regardless of injury severity.
International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Katharine D
KD
Currie
International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. krassioukov@icord.org.|Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. krassioukov@icord.org.|G. F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada. krassioukov@icord.org.
Andrei V
AV
Krassioukov
D002574:Cervical Vertebrae; D006801:Humans; D007024:Hypotension, Orthostatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D018667:Tilt-Table Test / Q000009:adverse effects*; D016138:Walking
Blood pressure; Central cord syndrome; Orthostatic intolerance; Syncope; Tilt-table test