Positive head-up tilt table test in patients with the long QT syndrome

Europace

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 213-217

  Hermosillo, A G ^a   Falcon J C ^a   Marquez, M F ^a   Arteaga, D ^a   Cardenas M ^a,b  

^a Institute of National Cardiology   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CARDIOLOGÍA IGNACIO CHÁVEZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Head up tilt table testing; Long QT syndrome; Neurally mediated syncope

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 0033207008     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/eupc.1999.0056     Document Type: Article

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