Neurocardiovascular instability, hypotensive episodes, and MRI lesions in neurodegenerative dementia

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 903, Issue , 2000, Pages 442-445

  Ballard, Clive ^a   O'Brien, John ^a   Barber, Bob ^a   Scheltens, Philip ^b   Shaw, Fiona ^a   Mckeith, Ian ^a   Kenny, Rose Anne ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID SINUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LEWY BODY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; TILT TABLE TEST; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0034016335     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06396.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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