Cerebral Autoregulation and Syncope

Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-80

  Franco Folino, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SYNCOPE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; SYNCOPE; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL;

EID: 34447257946     PISSN: 00330620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcad.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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