Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury can result from a number of causes, including hypotension, shock, and complications from vascular disease, and is recognized as a major cause of mortality and ...

Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Hypotension is low blood pressure. When you have hypotension, the pressure of circulating blood against the walls of your blood vessels is lower than it ...

OBJECTIVES: The prevalence of responsiveness to initial fluid challenge among hypotensive sepsis patients is unclear. To avoid fluid overload, and unnecessary treatment, it is important to ...

Medically reviewed by Yasmine S. Ali, MD, MSCI Although low blood pressure (otherwise known as hypotension) rarely requires treatment, it may need so if there are symptoms like severe dizziness or ...

One of the life-threatening complications of STEMI is cardiogenic shock during which hypotension is present from low cardiac output. This results in end-organ hypoperfusion and potentially multi ...