Sublingual nitroglycerin used in routine tilt testing provokes a cardiac output-mediated vasovagal response

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 588-593

  Gisolf, Janneke ^a   Westerhof, Berend E ^a   Van Dijk, Nynke ^a   Wesseling, Karel H ^b   Wieling, Wouter ^a   Karemaker, John M ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Finapres Medical Systems   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

baroreflex sensitivity; BRS; cardiac output; CO; DAP; diastolic arterial pressure; heart rate; HR; IBI; interbeat interval; MAP; mean arterial pressure; nitric oxide; nitroglycerin; NO; NTG; SAP; SNP; sodium nitroprusside; stroke volume; SV; systolic arterial pressure

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYNCOPE; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; TILT TABLE TEST; VAGUS REFLEX; VEIN DILATATION;

ADMINISTRATION, SUBLINGUAL; ADULT; BAROREFLEX; CARDIAC OUTPUT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGLYCERIN; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 4043094210     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2004.04.038     Document Type: Article

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