Unprovoked and glyceryl trinitrate-provoked head-up tilt table test is safe in older people: A review of 10 years' experience

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1913-1915

  Gieroba, Zbigniew J ^a   Newton, Julia L ^b   Parry, Steve W ^b   Norton, Michael ^b   Lawson, Joanna ^b   Kenny, Rose Anne ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Falls; Head up tilt; Older people; Vasovagal syncope

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; FALLING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; OBSERVATION; PROVOCATION TEST; REVIEW; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NITROGLYCERIN; SYNCOPE; TILT-TABLE TEST; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 16544388125     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52518.x     Document Type: Review

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