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Fabrizio Vallelonga
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Hypotensive episodes at 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring predict adverse outcomes in Parkinson’s disease
Neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (nOH) is a frequent nonmotor feature of Parkinson’s disease (PD), associated with adverse outcomes. Recently, 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) showed good acc...
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Hypertensive emergencies and urgencies: a preliminary report of the ongoing Italian multicentric study ERIDANO
Hypertensive urgencies (HU) and hypertensive emergencies (HE) are challenges for the Emergency Department (ED). A prospective multicentre study is ongoing to characterize patients with acute hypertensive disor...
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Open AccessBurden of caregiving for cardiovascular dysautonomia in Parkinson’s disease
We sought to estimate the impact of cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (cAN) on informal caregivers of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), defined as individuals providing regular care to a friend, partne...
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Open AccessDifferential impact of individual autonomic domains on clinical outcomes in Parkinson’s disease
While autonomic failure is a well-known prognostic factor for more aggressive disease progression in Parkinson’s disease (PD), with a three- to sevenfold higher risk of dementia and death within 10 years after...
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Open AccessMachine learning applied to ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: a new tool to diagnose autonomic failure?
Autonomic failure (AF) complicates Parkinson’s disease (PD) in one-third of cases, resulting in complex blood pressure (BP) abnormalities. While autonomic testing represents the diagnostic gold standard for AF...
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Understanding and improving decisions in clinical medicine (V): Jekyll and Hyde, the two faces of clinical reasoning
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Doctor–patient relationship at the time of COVID-19: travel notes
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Detection of orthostatic hypotension with ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in parkinson’s disease
We sought to test the accuracy of 24-hours ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring (ABPM) for the detection of orthostatic hypotension (OH) in Parkinson’s disease (PD). A total of 113 patients referred for a...
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Blood pressure circadian rhythm alterations in alpha-synucleinopathies
We sought to analyze the blood pressure (BP) circadian rhythm in Parkinson’s disease (PD), multiple system atrophy (MSA), and pure autonomic failure (PAF) and to evaluate the effect of vasoactive and dopaminer...
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Cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy and falls in Parkinson disease: a prospective cohort study
Falls represent one of the main complications of Parkinson’s disease (PD), significantly lowering quality of life. Cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (cAN) is one of the key contributing factors to PD-associa...
