Late hemodynamic changes during a negative passive head-up tilt predict the symptomatic outcome to a nitroglycerin sensitized tilt

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 89-96

  Bellard, Elisabeth ^a   Fortrat, Jacques Olivier ^a   Schang, Daniel ^b   Dupuis, Jean Marc ^c   Victor, Jacques ^c   Lefthériotis, Georges ^a  

^a Universite d'Angers   (France)

^b Ecole Superieure d'Electronique de l'Ouest   (France)

^c ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Nitroglycerin; Predictive index; Tilt test

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAD POSITION; HEAD UP TILT TABLE TEST; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION TIME; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MALE; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PREDICTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY; REST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSITIZATION; SUPINE POSITION; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGLYCERIN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUPINE POSITION; SYNCOPE; TILT-TABLE TEST; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 14844282099     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.09250.x     Document Type: Article

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