Why do we faint?

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 981-983

  Kaufmann, Horacio ^a   Hainsworth, Roger ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SYNCOPE; VASODILATATION;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BRADYCARDIA; CAROTID SINUS; COUGH; DEFECATION; EMOTIONS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; NITRIC OXIDE; SYNCOPE; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; URINATION; VASODILATION;

EID: 0034954331     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.1102     Document Type: Editorial

References (18)

1. On the vasodilatation in human skeletal muscle during post-hemorrhagic fainting
2. Excitation of cholinergic vasodilator nerves to human skeletal muscles during emotional stress
3. Nitric oxide contributes to the rise in forearm blood flow during mental stress in humans
4. Autonomic nervous system activity distinguishes among emotions
5. Cardiac pacing does not improve orthostatic tolerance in patients with vasovagal syncope
6. Salt supplement increases plasma volume and orthostatic tolerance in patients with unexplained syncope
7. Vasovagal reactions may occur after orthotopic heart transplantation
8. The contribution made by adrenaline to the vasodilation in the human forearm during emotional stress
9. Stress response patterns
10. Orthostatic tolerance in patients with unexplained syncope
11. Possible increase in the synthesis of endothelial derived relaxing factor (EDRF) during vasovagal syncope
12. Plasma endothelin during upright tilt: Relevance for orthostatic hypotension?
13. Control of reciprocal and non-reciprocal action of vagal and sympathetic efferents: Study of centrally induced reactions
14. Lecture on vasovagal syncope and the carotid sinus mechanism
15. Increased orthostatic tolerance following moderate exercise training in patients with unexplained syncope
16. Increased activity in left ventricular receptors during hemorrhage or occlusion of caval veins in the cat. A possible cause of the vaso-vagal reaction
17. Cholinergic vasodilator nerves
18. Sympathetic outflow to muscles during vasovagal syncope