Tilt table testing in the evaluation and management of athletes with recurrent exercise-induced syncope

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 24-28

  Grubb, Blair P ^a   Temesy Armos, Peter N ^a   Samoil, Daniela ^a   Wolfe, Douglas A ^a   Hahn, Harry ^a   Elliott, Laura ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Orthostatic hypotension; Prophylactic pharmacotherapy; Vasovagal reactivity

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DISOPYRAMIDE; DISOPYRAMIDE PHOSPHATE; FLUDROCORTISONE; ISOPRENALINE; SCOPOLAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG EFFICACY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SYNCOPE; TILTING; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOPROTERENOL; MALE; POSTURE; RECURRENCE; SPORTS; SYNCOPE;

EID: 0027492474     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/00005768-199301000-00005     Document Type: Article

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