Upright tilt test: Correlation between results and patient clinical features

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 19, Issue 11 I, 1996, Pages 1582-1587

  Folino, Antonio Franco ^a   Buja, Gianfranco ^a   Martini, Bortolo ^b   Bassan, Luciano ^b   Nava, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Hospital of Thiene   (Italy)

Author keywords

presyncope; syncope; upright tilt test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDING; SYNCOPE; TILTING; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0029859159     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1996.tb03184.x     Document Type: Article

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