Continuous recording of dicrotic and pulse pressures during head-up tilting test: The vasodepressive profile. Preliminary data

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 665-672

  Romano, Salvatore M ^a   Lazzeri, Chiara ^a   Chiostri, Marco ^a   Toso, Anna ^a   Foschi, Marco ^a   Pistolesi, Massimo ^a   Di Donato, Marisa ^a   Franchi, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; RECORDING; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYNCOPE; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 12244251455     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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