Initial diagnostic strategy in the case of transient losses of consciousness: The importance of the medical history;Initiële diagnostische strategie bij wegrakingen: Het belang van de anamnese

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 147, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 849-854

  Wieling, W ^a   Ganzeboom, K S ^a   Krediet, C T P ^a   Grundmeijer, H G L M ^a   Wilde, A A M ^a,b   Van Dijk, J G ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAROTID SINUS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; REFLEX; SYNCOPE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SYNCOPE;

EID: 0038076120     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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