Usefulness of low doses of atropine to quantify the vagal stimulus- response relation in patients with congestive heart failure

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1459-1463

  Yasumura, Yoshio ^a   Kohno, Hirotaka ^a   Shimizu, Hiromi ^a   Umeno, Tetsuhiro ^a   Takaki, Hiroshi ^a   Yamagishi, Masakazu ^a   Goto, Yoichi ^a   Miyatake, Kunio ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DOSE RESPONSE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ATROPINE; CATECHOLAMINES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; STROKE VOLUME; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0030731667     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00739-X     Document Type: Article

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