Orthostatic arterial hypotension and giant aneurysm of the basilar trunk
Giroud, M.; Guard, O.; Soichot, P.; Sautreaux, J.L.; Thierry, A.; Dumas, R.
Annales de Cardiologie et d'Angeiologie 35(1): 27-29
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-3928 PMID: 3963728 Document Number: 286150
The authors report two observations of giant aneurysm of basilar artery, where the first neurological signs were preceded or escorted by a postural hypotension. They emphasize the place of rhombencephon in the control of blood pressure and they bring together their cases with those reporting a postural hypotension revealing a lesion of medulla. They insist upon the necessity to look a peripheric and central neurological lesion in front of a postural hypotension.