Head-up tilt testing in children and young people: A retrospective observational study

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 292-298

  Dietz, Sanne ^a   Murfitt, Julia ^a   Florence, Lyndsey ^a   Thakker, Pradip ^b   Whitehouse, William P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b General Paediatrics and Paediatric Cardiology   (United Kingdom)

^c NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

children; head up tilt testing; investigation; syncope; transient loss of consciousness

Indexed keywords

FLUDROCORTISONE; MIDODRINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONVULSION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIZZINESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HEAD UP TILT TESTING; HEART BLOCK; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIGRAINE; NEURALLY MEDIATED TACHYCARDIA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESYNCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; SYNCOPE; TRANSIENT LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNCOPE; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 79957624295     PISSN: 10344810     EISSN: 14401754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2010.01951.x     Document Type: Article

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