Do we need a reflex tachycardia to stand up?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 962-967

  Fortrat, Jacques Olivier ^a   Lemarie, Catherine ^a   Bellard, Elisabeth ^a   Victor, Jacques ^b  

^a Universite d'Angers   (France)

^b ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Hemodynamics; Pacing; Rate modulation; Vagal syndromes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR REFLEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; STANDING; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TACHYCARDIA; TILT TABLE TEST; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY POSTURE; HEART BLOCK; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC OUTPUT; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; POSTURE; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TACHYCARDIA; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 33644674946     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.00216.x     Document Type: Article

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