Low Blood Pressure
Hypotension is the formal medical term for low blood pressure, and syncope
is the term for fainting. Neurally mediated hypotension (NMH) occurs when
there is an abnormal reflex interaction between the heart and the brain,
both of which usually are structurally normal. NMH is also known by the
following names: the fainting reflex, neurocardiogenic syncope, vasodepressor
syncope, the vaso-vagal reflex, and autonomic dysfunction.
Low blood pressure (neurally mediated hypotension) is common in many
fibromyalgia patients. Dr. Peter Rowe at Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine first discovered the connection between low blood pressure
and CFIDS. His paper titled, The Relationship Between Neurally Mediated
Hypotension and the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was published in the
September 1995 issue of JAMA. Dr. Rowe has replicated his tilt table test
in fibromyalgia patients with the same results. He is currently completing
a three-year scientific study on the connection between NMH, CFIDS and
FMS.
The following links will take you to several abstracts related to this
subject:
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Low
Blood Pressure Abstracts
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Abstract
I
| The
Relationship Between Neurally Mediated Hypotension and
the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Dr. Peter
Rowe |
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Abstract
II
| Provocation
of Hypotension and Pain During Upright Tilt Table Testing
in Adults with Fibromyalgia - Dr. Peter
Rowe |
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Abstract
III
| Neurally
Mediated Hypotension and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -
Dr. Peter Rowe |
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Abstract
IV
| Neurally
Mediated Hypotension: Its surgical evaluation, management
and early outcome as part of the Fibromyalgia—Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome
- Dr. Michael J. Rosner |
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