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By performing carotid duplex ultrasonography (CDU), we investigated changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF) during postural changes in patients with a cervical SCI, determined the correlation of CBF change with presyncopal symptoms, and investigated factors affecting cerebral autoregulation. We reviewed the medical records of 100 patients with a cervical SCI who underwent CDU. The differences between the systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and CBF volume in the supine posture and after 5 min at 50\u00b0 tilt were evaluated. Presyncopal symptoms occurred when the blood flow volume of the internal carotid artery decreased by \u226521% after tilt. In the group that had orthostatic hypotension and severe CBF decrease during tilt, the body mass index and physical and functional scores were lower than in other groups, and the proportion of patients with a severe SCI was high. The higher the SCI severity and the lower the functional score, the higher the possibility of cerebral autoregulation failure. CBF should be assessed by conducting CDU in patients with a high-level SCI.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/diagnostics11081321","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,23]],"date-time":"2021-07-23T04:29:14Z","timestamp":1627014554000},"page":"1321","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Cerebral Autoregulation during Postural Change in Patients with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury\u2014A Carotid Duplex Ultrasonography Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0013-5725","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Joo-Hyun","family":"Kee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 35015, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jun-Hyeong","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 35015, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chang-Won","family":"Moon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 35015, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6592-3370","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kang Hee","family":"Cho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 35015, Korea"},{"name":"Department of Biomedical Institute, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 35015, Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"103","DOI":"10.1682\/JRRD.2005.10.0159","article-title":"Assessment of Autonomic Dysfunction Following Spinal Cord Injury: Rationale for Additions to International Standards for Neurological Assessment","volume":"44","author":"Krassioukov","year":"2007","journal-title":"J. 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