Failure of reflex venoconstriction during exercise in patients with vasovagal syncope

Circulation

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 953-959

  Thomson, Helen L ^a   Atherton, John J ^a   Khafagi, Frederick A ^a   Frenneaux, Michael P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

baroreceptors; syncope

Indexed keywords

PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; BODY POSTURE; CARDIOVASCULAR REFLEX; CELL LABELING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ERYTHROCYTE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LEG EXERCISE; MALE; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENIC VEIN; SYNCOPE; VEIN TONE; VENOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0029981368     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.93.5.953     Document Type: Article

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