Pediatric patients’ head-up-tilt-test with pharmacological challenge, it is safe?
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Head-up tilt test with clomipramine challenge in vasovagal syndrome--a new tilt testing protocol.
PURPOSE The aim of the study was to randomly compare clomipramine, used as a challenge-agent during head-up tilt test, with isoproterenol, used in the conventional test, in patients with vasovagal syndrome. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The serotonergic re-uptake inhibitor clomipramine was infused (5mg in 5min) at the start of head-up tilt test (Clom-HUT) in 126 patients (mean age 41+/-16 years) with ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archivos de cardiolog�a de M�xico (English ed. Internet)
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2604-7063
DOI: 10.24875/acme.m20000111