Investigation of various types of neurocardiogenic response to head-up tilting by extended hemodynamic and neurohumoral monitoring

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 623-630

  Nowak, Lorenz ^a   Nowak, Franz G ^a   Janko, Sabine ^a   Dorwarth, Uwe ^a   Hoffmann, Ellen ^a   Botzenhardt, Florian ^a  

^a KLINIKUM BOGENHAUSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology clinical; Hemodynamics; Vagal syndromes

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE; NEUROHORMONE; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; INOTROPISM; MALE; NEUROCARDIOGENIC SYNCOPE; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PATIENT MONITORING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPINE POSITION; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NOREPINEPHRINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 34247501287     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00723.x     Document Type: Article

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