Long-term outcome of patients with recurrent syncope of unknown cause in the absence of organic heart disease and relation to results of baseline tilt table testing

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 876-879

  Gatzoulis, Konstantinos ^a,b   Sideris, Skevos ^a   Theopistou, Artemis ^a   Sotiropoulos, Hlias ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a   Toutouzas, Pavlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; METOPROLOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CAROTID SINUS SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD TILTING; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST;

EID: 0141682365     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(03)00907-X     Document Type: Article

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