Role of vagal control in vasovagal syncope

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 571-578

  Suzuki, Masaru ^a   Hori, Shingo ^a   Nakamura, Iwao ^a   Nagata, Shinya ^b   Tomita, Yutaka ^a   Aikawa, Naoki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Discover Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Head up tilt test; Spectral analysis; Vasovagal syncope; Wavelet transformation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; RR INTERVAL; SPECTROSCOPY; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TILT TABLE TEST; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0037305144     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.00096.x     Document Type: Article

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