Bradbury-Eggleston syndrome

Bradbury-Eggleston syndrome
a syndrome of dysautonomia with orthostatic hypotension, visual disturbances, hypohidrosis, impotence, lowered basal metabolic rate, dizziness, syncope, presyncope, and a slow, unchanging pulse. It occurs predominantly in older males in the early morning hours during the summer and is due to impaired peripheral vasoconstriction; it usually has a progressive course. Called also primary or pure autonomic failure.

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