Permanent cardiac pacing in elderly patients with recurrent falls, dizziness and syncope, and a hypersensitive cardie-inhibitory reflex

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 861, 1997, Pages 415-418

  Crilley, J G ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac pacing; Elderly; Hypersensitive cardioinhibitory reflex; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIOVASCULAR REFLEX; CAROTID SINUS SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART PACING; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVENTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGERY; SYMPTOM; SYNCOPE; THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CAROTID SINUS; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SYNCOPE; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030855038     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.73.861.415     Document Type: Article

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