Head-up tilt test with clomipramine challenge in vasovagal syndrome - A new tilt testing protocol

European Heart Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 658-663

  Theodorakis, G N ^a   Livanis, E G ^a   Leftheriotis, D ^a   Flevari, P ^a   Markianos, M ^a   Kremastinos, D Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Central serotonergic activity; Clomipramine challenge; Head up tilt test; Neurocardiogenic syncope

Indexed keywords

CLOMIPRAMINE; ISOPRENALINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SYNCOPE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLOMIPRAMINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOPROTERENOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 0037377419     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0195-668X(02)00821-7     Document Type: Article

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