Neurally mediated cardiac syncope: Autonomic modulation after normal saline infusion

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2059-2066

  Burklow, Thomas R ^a   Moak, Jeffrey P ^b   Bailey, James J ^b   Makhlouf, Fairouz T ^c  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINERALOCORTICOID; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST;

ADOLESCENT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; CHILD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SYNCOPE; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 0032719933     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(99)00133-3     Document Type: Article

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