Tilt table testing in the diagnosis of unexplained syncope
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Tilt table testing in the diagnosis of unexplained syncope.
While the investigation of the physiological and vasovagal syncope. The pathophysiology of the vasopathophysiological effects of orthostatic stress vagal response is thus central to an understanding induced by head-up tilt table testing in humans of the role of tilting in its diagnosis. began more than 50 years ago,1 it was not until 1986 Although central, higher cortical provocation of that th...
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عنوان ژورنال: QJM
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1460-2393
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/92.11.623