Walker S, McCarron M O, Flynn P A, Watt M
Department of Neurology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK.
Eur J Neurol. 2003 Nov;10(6):731-2. doi: 10.1046/j.1468-1331.2003.00662.x.
The baroreflex maintains blood pressure through the glossopharyngeal (IX) cranial nerve. We report a 54-year-old man who developed a left sided headache, hoarseness, dysarthria, dysphagia, and sustained hypertension from a left internal carotid artery dissection. We hypothesise that interruption of the left IX nerve caused hypertension in this patient.