Hyperdynamic circulation
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Hyperdynamic circulation is an increase in pulse pressure and blood pressure caused by certain physiological and psychiatric illnesses. The patient often presents with a collapsing pulse and sinus tachycardia. Some of the possible causes of hyperdynamic circulation are listed below:
- Renal disease
- Volume expansion
- Anaemia
- Anxiety
- AV fistulae
- Beriberi
- Erythroderma
- Exercise
- Hepatic failure
- Hydrocephalus[1]
- Hypercapnia
- Paget's disease
- Portal hypertension
- Pregnancy
- Pyrexia
- Thyrotoxicosis
- Vasodilator drugs
References
- ^ Greitz, Dan. Radiological Assessment of hydrocephalus: new theories and implications for therapy. Neurosurg Rev (2004) 27: 145-165.