Autonomic dysreflexia (AD) is when your involuntary nervous system overreacts to external or bodily stimuli. It is a serious condition considered a medical emergency. AD is also known as autonomic ...

Autonomic Dysreflexia (AD) is a medical condition that can lead to serious stroke, seizure, organ damage, permanent brain injury, or even death if not treated immediately. This fact sheet will help ...

Study design: Case report of autonomic dysreflexia presenting with transient aphasia in a subject with C4 tetraplegia. Objectives: To report a rare case of autonomic dysreflexia. Setting: ...

Autonomic Dysreflexia (AD) is a potentially life-threatening condition that occurs in individuals with a spinal cord injury. Patients usually present with elevated blood pressure and bradycardia.

Individuals with spinal cord injury and other neurologic disorders have conditions that affect their urologic systems and their ability to store and empty urine. Urodynamic tests evaluate this ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue University researcher in the College of Engineering and his collaborators in the Indiana University School of Medicine have received federal funding to develop their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jennie April Walker, BSc Hons, RN, Dip CPC. Staff Nurse, Spinal Trauma and Disorders Unit, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham Autonomic dysreflexia is a sudden and exaggerated autonomic response to ...