Effects of atrial tachypacing on symptoms and blood pressure in severe orthostatic hypotension

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Kohno, Ritsuko ^a   Abe, Haruhiko ^a   Oginosawa, Yasushi ^a   Nagatomo, Toshihisa ^a   Otsuji, Yutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial tachypacing; Orthostatic hypotension; Pacemaker; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIAL TACHYPACING; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CHRONOTROPISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; ORTHOSTATIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; SINUS RHYTHM; STANDING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPTOM; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; POSTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846272174     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00638.x     Document Type: Article

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