An International Journal For Fast Communications of Research and Treatment Related to Autonomic Function and Dysfunction
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Table of Contents
2000
1 Mechanisms of blood pressure
alterations in response to the Valsalva maneuver in postural tachycardia
syndrome
Paola Sandroni, Vera Novak, Tonette L. Opfer-Gehrking, Christine A. Huck, and
Phillip A. Low
7 Intravenous cannulation of
adolescents does not affect the modulation of autonomic tone assessed by heart
rate and blood pressure variability
Julian M. Stewart
13 Long-term effect of acetyl-L-carnitine
on myocardial1231-MIBG uptake in patients with diabetes
Anu K. Turpeinen, Jyrki T. Kuikka, Esko Vanninen, Jiwei Yang, and Mat ti I. J.
Uusitupa
17 Autonomic neuropathy in patients
with HIV: course, impact of disease stage, and medication
Thomas Gluck, Eva Oegenhardt; Jurgen Scholmerich, Bernhard Lang, Johannes
Grossmann, and Rainer H. Straub
23 Autonomic response to real versus illusory
motion (vection)
Mitsuhiro Aoki, Kai V. Thilo, Peter Burchill, John F. Golding, and Michael A.
Gresty
29 Hemodynamic and symptomatic effects of acute
interventions on tilt in patients with postural tachycardia syndrome
Victor M. Gordon, Tonette L. Opfer-Gehrking, Vera Novak, and Phillip A. Low
35 Fludrocortisone and sleeping in the head-up
position limit the postural decrease in cardiac output in autonomic failure
Johannes J. van Lieshout, A. Oerk Jan ten Harkel, and Wouter Wieling
Case Report
43 Familial vasovagal syncope and pseudosyncope:
observations in a case with both natural and adopted siblings
Christopher J. Mathias, Kazushi Oeguchi, Katharine Bleasdale-Barr, and Shelagh
Smith
47 Book Review
49 Calendar
51 Clinical Autonomic Research in
the new millennium
Christopher J. Mathias
53 Vasoconstrictor reserve in
neurally mediated syncope
Ronald Schondorf and Wouter Wieling
Research Papers
57 Forearm vascular responses during orthostatic
stress in control subjects and patients with posturally related syncope
C. M. Brown and R. Hainsworth
63 A new sign of sympathetic
neurocirculatory failure: premature ventricular contraction as a "one-beat
Valsalva maneuver"
David S. Goldstein
Case Reports
69 Baroreceptor denervation presenting as part of
a vagal mononeuropathy
D. L. Jardine, I. C. Melton, S. I. Bennett, I. G. Crozier, I. M. Donaldson, and
H. Ikram
77 Alternating monomeric paresis with
decreased skin temperature and hyperhidrosis in a case of thoracolumbar
myelopathy
Hiroshi Saito, Kiyoshi Omura, and Maki T ateyama
Clinical Autonomic Research Society-18th Annual Meeting
81 Program
85 Abstracts
103 Author Index
105 Calendar
107 Accentuated antagonism in the
control of human heart rate
Sebastian Ho Jo Uijtdehaage and Julian Fo Thayer
111 Autonomic dysfunction in
Machado-Joseph disease assessed by iodine123-labeled metaiodobenzylguanidine
myocardial scintigraphy
Toshinari Kazuta, Michiyuki Hayashi, Toshio Shimizu, Aya Iwasaki, Shigenobu
Nakamura, and Shunsaku Hirai
117 Differential change in cardiac
baroreflex sensitivity estimated by sequence and spectral analysis during
etomidate anesthesia
Yong-Ping Wang, Ruoh-Lan Shih, Chien-Lin Huang, Hui-Hsun Huang, and Shen-Kuo
Tsai
123 Assessment of the primary effect
of aging on heart rate variability in humans
Chiho Fukusaki, Kiyoshi Kawakubo, and Yoshiharu Yamamoto
131 Correlates of venous
catecholamine concentrations in patients with type 1 diabetes during a cold
pressor test
Dieter Luft, Christine Maisch, Valerie Hofmann-Kriick, Mahmoud Radjaipour, and
Hans-Ulrich Haring
Case Report
139 Brainstem-type Lewy body disease presenting
with progressive autonomic failure and lethargy
Nozomi Hishikawa, Yoshio Hashizume, Masaaki Hirayama, Kazuhiro Imamura, Yukihiko
Washimi, Yasuo Koike, Chiyuki Mabuchi, Mari Yoshida, and Gen Sobue
Clinical Autonomic Research Society and European Federation
of Autonomic Societies Joint Meeting
145 Program
149 Abstracts
165 Author Index
167 Calendar
169 Is fatigue in patients with
multiple sclerosis related to autonomic dysfunction?
Laurence Keselbrener, Solange Akselrod, Anat Ahiron, Michael Eldar, Yoram Barak,
and Zeev Rotstein
177 Quantitative sensory testing of
thermal and vibratory perception in familial dysautonomia
Max J. Hilz and Felicia B. Axelrod
185 Detection of serious
bradyarrhythmias in Guillain-Barre syndrome: sensitivity and specificity of the
24-hour heart rate power spectrum
Peter Flachenecker, Kristine Lem, Wolfgang Miillges, and Karlheinz Reiners
193 The use of clonidine in the
management of autonomic overactivity in neuroleptic malignant syndrome
Leonidas Gregorakos, Thomas Thomaides, Stamatina Stratouli, and Ekaterini
Sakayanni
197 Acetylsalicylic acid and
autonomic modulation
Ronald E. De Meersman, Adrienne S. Zion, James S. Lieberman, and John A. Downey
203 Prader-Wdli syndrome fails to
alter cardiac autonomic modulation
Christine K. Wade, Ronald E. De Meersman, Morris Angulo, James S. Lieberman, and
John A. Downey
207 Sympathetic nervous system
activity and cardiovascular homeostasis during head-up tilt in patients with
spinal cord injuries
Sibrand Houtman, Berend Oeseburg, Richard L. Hughson, and Maria T. E. Hopman
XIth International Syntposium on the Autonomic Nervous System
213 Program
221 Abstracts
265 Author Index
267 Calendar
269 Baroreflex dysfunction induced by microgravity:
potential relevance to postflight orthostatic intolerance
Andrew C. Ertl, Andre Diedrich, and Italo Biaggioni
279 Vascular responses to orthostatic stress in
patients with postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS), in patients with low
orthostatic tolerance, and in asymptomatic controls
Victoria E. Bush, Victoria L. Wight, Clive M. Brown, and Roger Hainsworth
285 Noninvasive detection of sympathetic
neurocirculatory failure
David S. Goldstein and Cees M. Tack
293 Clinical improvement in patients with orthostatic
intolerance after treatment with bisoprolol and fludrocortisone
Joao Freitas, Rosa Santos, Elsa Azevedo, Ovidio Costa, Mario Carvalho, and
A. Falcao de Freitas
301 Sympathoadrenal activation and the dumping
syndrome after gastric surgery
D. Jannet Mehagnoul-Schipper, Jacques W. M. Lenders, Jacques J. Willemsen,
and Wim P. M. Hopman
309 Lack of autonomic nervous dysfunction in
progressive supranuclear palsy, a study of blood pressure variability
Christine Brefel-Courbon, Claire Thalamas, Oliver Rascol, Jean-Louis Montastruc,
and Jean-Michel Senard
313 Autonomic studies in hypertensive patient with
unusual sexual dysfunction: response to reserpine
Kishore K. Deepak, Balram Bhargava, Rajiv Narang, Bishnu H. Paudel, Praveen
K. Rai, and Shekhar Saxena
317 Oral mucosal blood flow following dry ice
stimulation in humans
Josef G. Heckmann, Max J. Hilz, Thomas Hummel, Michael Popp Harald Marthol,
Bernhard Neundorfer, and Siegfried M. Heckmann