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Clinical Autonomic Research
Published in: Clinical Autonomic Research 1/2016

01-02-2016 | Letter to the Editor

Mother-induced hypertension in familial dysautonomia

Authors: Lucy Norcliffe-Kaufmann, Jose-Alberto Palma, Horacio Kaufmann

Published in: Clinical Autonomic Research | Issue 1/2016

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Abstract

Here we report the case of a patient with familial dysautonomia (a genetic form of afferent baroreflex failure), who had severe hypertension (230/149 mmHg) induced by the stress of his mother taking his blood pressure. His hypertension subsided when he learnt to measure his blood pressure without his mother’s involvement. The case highlights how the reaction to maternal stress becomes amplified when catecholamine release is no longer under baroreflex control.
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Metadata
Title
Mother-induced hypertension in familial dysautonomia
Authors
Lucy Norcliffe-Kaufmann
Jose-Alberto Palma
Horacio Kaufmann
Publication date
01-02-2016
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Clinical Autonomic Research / Issue 1/2016
Print ISSN: 0959-9851
Electronic ISSN: 1619-1560
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10286-015-0323-9

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