Successful treatment of severe orthostatic hypotension with cardiac tachypacing in dual chamber pacemakers

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 137-139

  Abe, Haruhiko ^a   Numata, Tetsuya ^a   Hanada, Hideyuki ^a   Kohshi, Kiyotaka ^a   Nakashima, Yasuhide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular interval; Orthostatic hypotension; Sick sinus syndrome; Syncope; Tachypacing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HUMAN; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PULSE RATE; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; STANDING; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST;

EID: 0033977553     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2000.tb00661.x     Document Type: Article

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