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Cardiac Autonomic Syndromes

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Clinical Guide to Cardiac Autonomic Tests

Abstract

Neurological disorders of both the central and peripheral nervous system frequently involve the cardiovascular system. Cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction is often the most significant feature of these disorders and may result in substantial disability, morbidity and even death. The features of cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction include orthostatic hypotension, poor exercise tolerance, autonomic dysreflexia, baroreflex failure, silent myocardial ischemia and infarction, cardiac arrhythmias and sudden death.1,2 This chapter will provide a neuro-anatomical approach to classify the neurological disorders that result in cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction. We will describe the features of these disorders and the associated autonomic test abnormalities.

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