Syncope: The diagnostic value of head-up tilt testing

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 4 I, 1997, Pages 874-879

  Oribe, Emilio ^a,b   Caro, Susana ^a   Perera, Rohan ^a   Winters, Stephen L ^a   Gomes, J Anthony ^a   Kaufmann, Horacio ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b St John's Queens Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

head up tilt; hypotension; sensitivity; specificity; syncope

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; PREDICTION; SYNCOPE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNCOPE; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 0030901948     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb05489.x     Document Type: Article

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