Carotid sinus syndrome: Looking sideways is sufficient cause for syncope [17]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 188-189

  Claassen, Jurgen A H R ^a   Jansen, René W M M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; CAROTID SINUS MASSAGE; CAROTID SINUS SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; SINUS RHYTHM; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID SINUS; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; POSTURE; SYNCOPE; SYNDROME;

EID: 33645117604     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.00575_17.x     Document Type: Letter

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