Prognostic relevance of pathological sympathetic activation after acute thromboembolic stroke

Sander, Dirk; Winbeck, Kerstin; Klingelhöfer, J.; Etgen, Thorleif; Conrad, B.

doi:10.1212/wnl.57.5.833

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Prognostic relevance of pathological sympathetic activation after acute thromboembolic stroke

Published in Neurology • Sep 11, 2001

Authors:

Dirk Sander

Kerstin Winbeck

J. Klingelhöfer

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the prognostic impact of early pathologic sympathetic activation after stroke. METHODS: The authors examined 112 consecutive patients (mean age, 69 years; 60 men) with their first brain infarction. A pathologic sympathetic activation was presumed if the initial norepinephrine ...

Subject

Medicine

Blood pressure

Norepinephrine

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