Neurogenic Hypertension

NEUROGENIC HYPERTENSION: REPORT OF FIVE CASES TO HIGHLIGHT THE CONTROVERSY

The entity of "neurogenic hypertension" is defined as arterial hypertension caused explicitly by derangement of the intricate network of the central nervous system. Among 193 cases of cranial rhizopathies operated on between 1984 and 1995 at this center, 5 cases of established arterial hypertension with concomitant rhizopathies also underwent ventrolateral medullary decompression. The elev...

Neurogenic hypertension revisited.

Sixteen years ago I reviewed (Dickinson, 1965) the evidence that essential hypertension was neurogenically initiated and suggested that its primary cause was a rise in the minimal resistance of the arteries supplying the brain stem. At that time very few investigators supported a neurogenic hypothesis andthose that did believed that the neurogenic stimulus was psychological, rather than organic...

Recent Advances in Neurogenic Hypertension

Neurogenic hypertension has been a fixture in the hypertension literature for well over half a century. Early reports documented an increase in arterial blood pressure (ABP) after manipulation of baroreceptor afferent nerve signaling, so the hypertension was clearly of neural origin. Today, neurogenic hypertension often refers to a sympathetically driven increase in ABP. However, it could also ...

The neurogenic component in hypertension.

Neurogenic abnormalities in masked hypertension.

Patients with hypertension exhibit an increased sympathetic activity. No information exists as to whether this is the case in normotensive individuals in whom there is an increased ambulatory blood pressure, a condition termed "masked" hypertension. We studied 18 middle-aged subjects with masked hypertension in whom we measured muscle sympathetic nerve traffic (peroneal nerve and microneurograp...