Role of hte Hypothalamus in Integration of behavior and Cardiovascular Responses (p. 60)
Hypertension: a companion to Brenner and Rector's the kidney
By Suzanne Oparil, Michael A. WeberElsevier Health Sciences, 2005 - Medical - 872 pages
"Sympathectomy is a technique about which we have limited knowledge, applied to disorders about which we have little understanding." Associate Professor Robert Boas, Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australasian College of Anaesthetists and the Royal College of Anaesthetists, The Journal of Pain, Vol 1, No 4 (Winter), 2000: pp 258-260
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cerebral edema is worsened by sympathectomy, which causes increased cerebral blood flow
Although excessive SNS activity may be globally harmful, catecholamines and sympathetic nerves may also have organ-protective effects via reflex arteriolar constriction, which may protect the capillaries of the brain and kidney from surges in SBP. A baroprotective role of cerebral sympathetic nerves was uncovered by Heistad et al., who unilaterally denervated the cerebral vasculature in stroke-prone rats and found that fatal stroke occurred rapidly in the hemisphere ipsilateral to the sympathetic denervation. In the syndrome of malignant hypertension, cerebral edema is worsened by sympathectomy, which causes increased cerebral blood flow.
Role of hte Hypothalamus in Integration of behavior and Cardiovascular Responses (p. 60)
Elsevier Health Sciences, 2005 - Medical - 872 pages
Role of hte Hypothalamus in Integration of behavior and Cardiovascular Responses (p. 60)
Elsevier Health Sciences, 2005 - Medical - 872 pages