Hyperdynamic circulation

Hyperdynamic circulation

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:

*Anaemia
*Anxiety
*AV fistulae
*Beriberi
*Erythroderma
*Exercise
*Hepatic failure
*Hypercapnia
*Paget's disease
*Pregnancy
*Pyrexia
*Thyrotoxicosis
*Vasodilator drugspatent ductus arteriosus

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