Severe nocturnal bradycardia with daytime tachycardia in obstructive sleep apnoea [6]

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 93-94

  Bridgman, John C ^a   Heddle, William F ^a  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; DIGOXIN; FUROSEMIDE; HEPARIN;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; OBESITY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT MONITORING; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SMOKING; TACHYCARDIA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 31744432626     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00133.x     Document Type: Letter

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