Autonomic uprising: the tilt table test in autonomic medicine. [PDF]
Clin Auton Res, 2019 This perspective piece on head-up tilt table testing is part of a series on autonomic function testing. The tilt table can be a useful diagnostic test, but methodologies vary, and the results are sometimes misinterpreted. The intent here is not to review comprehensively the utility of various tilt table testing protocols but to convey a number of ...
Cheshire WP, Goldstein DS.
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Reduced systemic vascular resistance is the underlying hemodynamic mechanism in nitrate-stimulated vasovagal syncope during head-up tilt-table test [PDF]
Journal of Arrhythmia, 2015 Background: Nitroglycerin (NTG) challenge during head-up tilt-table testing (HUTT) is often utilized to determine the etiology of unexplained vascular syncope.
Byung Gyu Kim, MD +7 more
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Which is preferable for orthostatic hypotension diagnosis in older adults: active standing test or head-up tilt table test? [PDF]
Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2017 Ali Ekrem Aydin,1 Pinar Soysal,2 Ahmet Turan Isik1 1Center for Aging Brain and Dementia, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey; 2Kayseri Education and Research Hospital, Geriatric Center, Kayseri ...
Aydin AE, Soysal P, Isik AT
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Tilt-table test: its role in modern practice. [PDF]
Clin Med (Lond), 2013 Syncope is a major healthcare problem with significant morbidity, mortality and healthcare cost. It is a common symptom with a complex pathophysiology and, therefore, several aetiologies. Tilt-table testing (TTT) is an important, yet perhaps not widely-used, test that forms part of the management of syncope.
Sandhu KS, Khan P, Panting J, Nadar S.
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Abolish the Tilt Table Test for the Workup of Syncope! [PDF]
Circulation, 2020 Nitin Kulkarni +2 more
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Isoproterenol Causing Coronary Vasospasm and ST Elevations During Tilt Table Testing
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2020 Syncope is a sudden but reversible brief loss of consciousness secondary to an acute reduction of cerebral perfusion. Reflex syncope denotes neurologically mediated syncope, which includes vasovagal, carotid sinus syndrome, and other situational syncope.
Hanh Duong MS +4 more
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Tilt Table Test: State of The Art
Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal, 2003 The loss of consciousness has been a subject of wonder and uncertainty in humans, and for this reason it has been the object of medical investigation since the beginning of time. Even actually, it is certainly an unresolved clinical problem.
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The tilt table test is useful for the diagnosis of vasovagal syncope and should not be abolished. [PDF]
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich), 2020 The tilt table test (TTT) has been used continuously as a complementary test for the diagnosis of transient loss of consciousness (TLOC) or syncope, since its introduction in 1986 by Kenny et al1 Its use is still recommended for the diagnosis of TLOC by ...
Chrysant SG.
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The Differences in the Diagnostic Profile in Children with Vasovagal Syncope between the Result of Head-Up Tilt Table Test. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 (1) Background: The features characterizing vasovagal syncope (VVS) are an important factor in the correct evaluation of diagnostic risk stratification in children and adolescents.
Kolarczyk E +3 more
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Orthostatic symptoms does not always manifest during tilt-table test in pediatric postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome patients [PDF]
Korean Journal of Pediatrics, 2013 PurposeChronic day-to-day symptoms of orthostatic intolerance are the most notable features of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). However, we have encountered patients with such symptoms and excessive tachycardia but with no symptoms ...
Tae-Eon Huh +10 more
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