Immediate reproducibility of tilt-table test results in elderly patients referred for evaluation of syncope or presyncope

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1492-1494

  Kou, William H ^a   Randall, Deborah K ^a   Dorset, Darren N ^a   Koch, Kimberly S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYNCOPE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; ISOPROTERENOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 0030840319     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00741-8     Document Type: Article

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