An implantable loop recorder study of highly symptomatic vasovagal patients: The heart rhythm observed during a spontaneous syncope is identical to the recurrent syncope but not correlated with the head-up tilt test or adenosine triphosphate test

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 587-593

  Deharo, Jean Claude ^a   Jego, Christophe ^a   Lanteaume, André ^a   Djiane, Pierre ^a  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RATE; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 31644435937     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2005.09.043     Document Type: Article

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