Evaluation and outcome of patients with syncope

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 160-175

  Kapoor, Wishwa N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA STENOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBCLAVIAN STEAL SYNDROME; SYNCOPE;

ADULT; COUGH; DEFECATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SYNCOPE; URINATION;

EID: 0025294155     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005792-199005000-00004     Document Type: Article

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