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Ischemic electrocardiographic change induced by exercise in a patient with chronic autonomic failure.

Asahina M, Hiraga A, Hayashi Y, Mizobuchi K, Sakakibara R, Lee K, Hattori T

Dept. of Neurology, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba 260-8670, Japan, asahina@faculty.chiba-u.jp.

We report a patient with chronic autonomic failure, who had exercise-induced ischemic electrocardiographic changes without coronary artery abnormalities. Orthostatic hypotension and exercise-induced release of humoral vasoconstrictors may have caused the myocardial ischemia.

Published 14 February 2006 in Clin Auton Res, 16(1): 72-5.
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