Usefulness of plasma catecholamines during head-up tilt as a measure of sympathetic activation in vasovagal patients

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1539-1545

  Yamanouchi, Yoshio ^a   Shehadeh, Abbas A ^a   Fouad Tarazi, Fetnat M ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Catecholamines; Head up tilt; Vasovagal syncope

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALDOSTERONE; CATECHOLAMINE; NORADRENALIN; RENIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; SUPINE POSITION; SYNCOPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALDOSTERONE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; POSTURE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RENIN; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL;

EID: 0031877668     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb00240.x     Document Type: Article

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