Tilt testing: On the road to obsolescence?

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 925-926

  Mittal, Suneet ^a   Lerman, Bruce B ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; ISOPRENALINE;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ASYSTOLE; CARDIOLOGY; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; IMPLANTATION; INCIDENCE; INTRINSIC SYMPATHOMIMETIC ACTIVITY; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STANDING; STRESS; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA; TILT TABLE TEST; TITRIMETRY; VENOUS STASIS;

CARDIOLOGY; HUMANS; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 0141612978     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8167.2003.03294.x     Document Type: Note

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