Autonomic dysreflexia is a condition in which the involuntary nervous system overreacts to external stimuli. It is known as autonomic hyperreflexia. It causes a dangerous spike in blood pressure, a ...

In patients with spinal cord injuries, a medical emergency known as autonomic dysreflexia can occur and have potentially life-threatening consequences. Autonomic dysreflexia, also known as autonomic ...

Your autonomic nervous system controls things that your body does without having to think about it, such as breathing and digesting. Autonomic dysreflexia (sometimes also called hyperreflexia) is a ...

A 59-year-old man with a complete (American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale A) spinal cord injury at the fourth thoracic vertebra (T4), secondary to a motor vehicle crash 42 years earlier, ...

Autonomic dysreflexia (AD) is a potentially life threatening condition common in people who have experienced spinal cord injury in the upper back. AD occurs when an injury disrupts the nervous ...

Dysreflexia is related to the interruption of descending inhibition and the development of hyperresponsiveness of peripheral receptors. Bradycardia resulting from a hypertensive crisis is due to ...