Sick sinus syndrome

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 211-227

  Brignole, Michele ^a  

^a OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ATROPINE; BELLADONNA ALKALOID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGITALIS; HYDRALAZINE; ISOPRENALINE; PROPRANOLOL; THEOPHYLLINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CAROTID SINUS SYNDROME; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; EXERCISE TEST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART PACING; HISTORY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SINUS NODE CONDUCTION VELOCITY; SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION; SINUS NODE RECOVERY TIME; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNCOPE; HEART SINOATRIAL BLOCK; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SINUS NODE; TELEMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SINOATRIAL BLOCK; SINOATRIAL NODE; TELEMETRY;

EID: 0035984851     PISSN: 07490690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-0690(02)00006-X     Document Type: Review

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