Tilt table testing in childhood: Improved sensitivity by non-invasive haemodynamic monitoring devices?

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 615-621

  Dalla Pozza, Robert ^a,b   Kleinmann, Arne ^a   Kozlik Feldmann, Rainer ^a   Netz, Heinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baroreceptor function; Heart rate variability; Neurally mediated syncope; Tilt table testing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESSORECEPTOR; SPECTROSCOPY; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA; TILT TABLE TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PRESSORECEPTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 33845797066     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.61.6.2017960     Document Type: Article

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