Left ventricle systolic volume in vasovagal syncope patients

Folia Morphologica

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 175-178

  Kozłowski, Dariusz ^a   Byrdziak, Paweł ^a   Krupa, Wojciech ^b   Gawrysiak, Marcin ^a   Piwko, Grzegorz ^a   Kubica, Jacek ^b   Światecka, Grazyna ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

LV posterior wall slope; LV systolic volume; Vasovagal reaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEAD TILTING; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; SENSORY NERVE; SYNCOPE; TIME; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VAGUS NERVE;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE VOLUME; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; SYSTOLE; TILT-TABLE TEST; VAGUS NERVE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VISCERAL AFFERENTS;

EID: 0042326136     PISSN: 00155659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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