Hiccup: Mystery, nature and treatment

Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 123-130

  Chang, Full Young ^a   Lu, Ching Liang ^a  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Complementary therapies; Gabapentin; Hiccup; Myoclonus; Reflex arc

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMANTADINE; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; ARIPIPRAZOLE; AZITHROMYCIN; BACLOFEN; BENZODIAZEPINE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CARVEDILOL; CHLORPROMAZINE; DOPAMINE; GABAPENTIN; LIDOCAINE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; OLANZAPINE; PROKINETIC AGENT; SEROTONIN AGONIST; STEROID; TANDOSPIRONE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; BREATHING; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER INVASION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HERPES SIMPLEX; HICCUP; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INTRACTABLE HICCUP; MESENCEPHALON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEOPLASM; NERVE BLOCK; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSISTENT HICCUP; PHRENIC NERVE; REFLEX ARC; REVIEW; STOMACH LAVAGE; STROKE; TRACHEOSTOMY; VAGUS NERVE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 84865086465     PISSN: 20930879     EISSN: 20930887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5056/jnm.2012.18.2.123     Document Type: Review

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