Head-upright tilt table testing: A safe and easy way to assess neurocardiogenic syncope

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 133-140

  Grubb, Blair P ^a   Kimmel, Sanford ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CORTICOSTEROID; DISOPYRAMIDE; EDROPHONIUM CHLORIDE; ENLON; FLUDROCORTISONE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; ISOPRENALINE; METHYLPHENIDATE; METOPROLOL; METOPROLOL TARTRATE; MIDODRINE; NEFAZODONE; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE; SERTRALINE; THEOPHYLLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BODY POSTURE; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; HEAD TILTING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; NAUSEA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PROVOCATION TEST; SYNCOPE; TILTING;

EID: 0031885207     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.1998.01.270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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