Autonomic and electrocardiographic changes in cardioinhibitory syncope

Europace

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 91-95

  Mehlsen, Jesper ^a   Kaijer, Michelle Nymann ^a   Mehlsen, Anne Birgitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Autonomic; Heart rate; Nervous system; Reflex syncope; Vagus nerve

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ATRIOVENTRICULAR JUNCTION ARRHYTHMIA; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOINHIBITORY SYNCOPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PR INTERVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYNCOPE; VAGUS NERVE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HEART ARREST; HEART RATE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TILT TABLE TEST;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRADYCARDIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; SYNCOPE; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 40349091633     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eum237     Document Type: Article

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