Medications: Narcotics, anticholinergics, phenothiazines, laxative abuse, benzodiazepines, calcium channel blockers, clonidine, vincristine, interleukin, amphetamine overdose, cytotoxic drugs, antiparkinsonian agents |
Medical: |
• Cardiopulmonary – Mechanical ventilation, myocardial infarction, pneumonia, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease |
• Infectious – Sepsis, herpes zoster, cytomegalovirus |
• Metabolic – Hypokalemia, hyponatremia, hypocalcemia, hypercalcemia, diabetes, hypothyroidism |
• Neurologic – Dementia, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, spinal cord disease |
• Oncologic – Small cell lung cancer, multiple myeloma, acute myeloid leukemia, disseminated cancer, pelvic irradiation, retroperitoneal invasion of lumbar sympathetic nervous system |
• Miscellaneous – Organ failure, amyloidosis, physical exertion, idiopathic, alcoholism |
Surgical: |
• Inflammation – Appendicitis, cholecystitis, pancreatitis, gastritis, abscess |
• Obstetric – Normal pregnancy, normal delivery, cesarean section, hysterectomy, placenta previa |
• Organ transplantation – Liver, kidney, heart, lung |
• Trauma and Orthopedic – Pelvic trauma, pelvic, hip fracture, pelvic, hip surgery, joint arthroplasty, spine surgery, burns |
• Urologic – Ethanol ablation of renal cancer, nephrolithiasis |
• Others – Gastrointestinal bleeding, retroperitoneal hematoma, mesenteric thrombosis, craniotomy, aortic aneurysms, thoracotomy |