Significant complications can occur with ischemic heart disease and tilt table testing

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 4 I, 1999, Pages 675-677

  Leman, Robert B ^b   Clarke, Elizabeth ^c   Gillette, Paul ^a  

^a Pediatrics Cardiology ^*  (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Complications; Ischemia; Tilt table; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ISOPRENALINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOPROTERENOL; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; STENTS; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 0032902747     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb00513.x     Document Type: Article

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