Sympathoadrenal imbalance before neurocardiogenic syncope

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-58

  Goldstein, David S ^a,b   Holmes, Courtney ^a,b   Frank, Steven M ^a,b   Naqibuddin, Mohammad ^a,b   Dendi, Raghuveer ^a,b   Snader, Sally ^a,b   Calkins, Hugh ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREARM; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUPINE POSITION; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSTURE; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0037223509     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(02)02997-1     Document Type: Article

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