Noninvasive assessment of the cardiac baroreflex: Response to downward tilting and comparison with the phenylephrine method

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 211-215

  Takahashi, Naohiko ^a   Nakagawa, Mikiko ^a   Saikawa, Tetsunori ^a   Ooie, Tatsuhiko ^a   Akimitsu, Tadafumi ^a   Kaneda, Koji ^a   Hara, Masahide ^a   Iwao, Tetsu ^a   Yonemochi, Hidetoshi ^a   Ito, Morio ^a   Sakata, Toshiie ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENYLEPHRINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R WAVE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TILT TABLE TEST; VAGUS NERVE;

ADULT; BAROREFLEX; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; HEART; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; TILT-TABLE TEST; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 0033165768     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(99)00158-8     Document Type: Article

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