Role of carotid sinus syndrome and neurocardiogenic syncope in recurrent syncope and falls in patients referred to an outpatient clinic in a district general hospital

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 897, 2000, Pages 405-408

  Eltrafi, Abuzeid ^a   King, Debra ^a   Silas, Joseph H ^a   Currie, Peter ^a   Lye, Michael ^b  

^a Wirral Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carotid sinus syndrome; Neurocardiogenic syncope; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID SINUS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSAGE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUPINE POSITION; SYNCOPE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID SINUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASSAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; SYNDROME; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 0033923295     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.76.897.405     Document Type: Article

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