Tilt table testing: Concepts and limitations

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3 II, 1997, Pages 781-787

  Grubb, Blair P ^a   Kosinski, Daniel ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Neurocardiogenic syncope; Tilt table testing

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CATECHOLAMINE; EDROPHONIUM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; ISOPRENALINE; OXYGEN;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR; PROVOCATION TEST; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYNCOPE; TILTING;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BRADYCARDIA; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; POSTURE; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNCOPE; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 0030988535     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb03904.x     Document Type: Article

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