The medical therapy of cardioinhibitory syncope in pediatric patients

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1759-1761

  Deal, Barbara J ^a   Strieper, Margaret ^b   Scagliotti, Daniel ^b   Hulse, Eddie ^b   Auld, Debbie ^b   Campbell, Robert ^b   Strasburger, Janette F ^b   Benson Jr , D Woodrow ^b  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Asystole; Cardioinhibitory; Syncope; Upright tilt testing

Indexed keywords

DISOPYRAMIDE; FLUDROCORTISONE; HYDROCORTISONE; METOPROLOL; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROMODULATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SALT INTAKE; SYNCOPE; TILTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENERGIC AGONISTS; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DISOPYRAMIDE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; EPHEDRINE; FLUDROCORTISONE; FLUID THERAPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; METOPROLOL; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RECURRENCE; SAFETY; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0030792131     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb03563.x     Document Type: Article

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