Different humoral responses during head-up tilt testing among patients with neurocardiogenic syncope

American Heart Journal

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-73

  Vanderheyden, M ^a   Goethals, M ^a   Nellens, P ^a   Andries, E ^a   Brugada, P ^a  

^a CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALDOSTERONE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DISOPYRAMIDE; NORADRENALIN; OXYGEN; RENIN; SCOPOLAMINE;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART PACING; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; SYNCOPE; TILTING; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0031905327     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(98)70344-8     Document Type: Article

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