Clinical characteristics of defecation syncope compared with micturition syncope

Circulation Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 307-311

  Komatsu, Kaoru ^a   Sumiyoshi, Masataka ^b   Abe, Haruhiko ^c   Kohno, Ritsuko ^c   Hayashi, Hidemori ^a   Sekita, Gaku ^a   Tokano, Takashi ^d   Nakazato, Yuji ^e   Daida, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY NERIMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^d JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SHIZUOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY URAYASU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Defecation syncope; Micturition syncope; Situational syncope

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECATION SYNCOPE; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEAD TILTING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MICTURITION DISORDER; MICTURITION SYNCOPE; NAUSEA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYNCOPE; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEFECATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SYNCOPE; TILT-TABLE TEST; URINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75749097379     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-09-0421     Document Type: Article

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