'Front-loaded' head-up tilt table testing: Validation of a rapid first line nitrate-provoked tilt protocol for the diagnosis of vasovagal syncope

Age and Ageing

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 411-415

  Parry, Steve W ^a   Gray, Janine C ^b   Newton, Julia L ^a   Reeve, Pamela ^a   O'Shea, Diarmuid ^c   Kenny, Rose Anne ^d  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Elderly; Head up tilt testing; Nitrates; Syncope; Vasovagal

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; SYNCOPE; TILT TABLE TEST; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGLYCERIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

SYNCOPE;

EID: 47049128246     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afn098     Document Type: Article

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