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Head-up tilt test without intravascular cannulation in children and adolescents
- Source :
- International Journal of Cardiology. 80:69-76
- Publication Year :
- 2001
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2001.
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Abstract
- Previous studies of head-up tilt test have shown that testing at high degrees lacks specificity in children. We suspected that the high false positive rate might be related to the intravascular catheter and other maneuvers incorporated in the test and therefore studied the sensitivity and specificity of standing and HUT at 80 degrees without any invasive procedure and other maneuvers in children and adolescents. Twenty three patients (11.8+/-2.7 years) with recurrent typical neurally mediated syncope and 35 normal control children (11.6+/-3.0 years) underwent motionless standing for 15 min and tilting to 80 degrees for 30 min. Continuous finger arterial pressure monitoring and ECG were performed during the test. Eight (35%) of the 23 patients developed symptoms of near syncope during motionless standing. Thirteen (57%) of them had positive results at 80 degrees tilting for 30 min. The symptoms of syncope were not always corresponding to excessive haemodynamic changes. None of the controls developed any symptoms or excessive hemodynamic changes. Without intravascular instrumentation and other autonomic maneuvers, active motionless standing or HUT at 80 degrees for 30 min is highly specific but of limited sensitivity for the investigation of vasovagal syncope.
- Subjects :
- Analysis of Variance
Adolescent
biology
business.industry
Posture
Syncope (genus)
Hemodynamics
Blood Pressure
Neurological disorder
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Sensitivity and Specificity
Syncope
Blood pressure
El Niño
Tilt-Table Test
Anesthesia
Ambulatory
medicine
Humans
False positive rate
Child
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Vasovagal syncope
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01675273
- Volume :
- 80
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Cardiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c5575ae9561c98f6d799ecdd412430f1