Cerebral syncope: Loss of consciousness associated with cerebral vasoconstriction in the absence of systemic hypotension

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4 I, 1998, Pages 652-658

  Grubb, Blair P ^a   Samoil, Daniela ^b   Kosinski, Daniel ^a   Wolfe, Douglas ^a   Brewster, Pamela ^a   Elliott, Laura ^a   Hahn, Harry ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral autoregulation; Doppler; Syncope; Transcranial

Indexed keywords

ISOPRENALINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRESSORECEPTOR; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; ISOPROTERENOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNCOPE; TILT-TABLE TEST; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0031957077     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb00120.x     Document Type: Article

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