Alcohol produces imbalance of adrenal and neuronal sympathetic activity in patients with alcohol-induced neurocardiogenic syncope

Circulation Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 979-985

  Takahashi, Naoyuki ^a   Imai, Shinobu ^a   Saito, Fumio ^a   Suzuki, Kazutaka ^a   Tanaka, Hideyuki ^a   Kushiro, Toshio ^a   Yagi, Hiroshi ^a   Hirayama, Atsushi ^a  

^a SURUGADAI NIHON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Head up tilt test; Neurocardiogenic syncope; Plasma catecholamine

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALCOHOL; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HUMAN; MALE; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYNCOPE;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BLOOD PRESSURE; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOREPINEPHRINE; RENIN; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 45849086511     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.72.979     Document Type: Article

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