Pathophysiology of syncope

Cerebral Blood Flow and Oxygen Consumption in Man

1959 • 1,965 citations

Regulation of central blood volume and cardiac filling in endurance athletes: the Frank-Starling mechanism as a determinant of orthostatic tolerance.

1993 • 645 citations

Human Baroreflexes in Health and Disease

1992 • 499 citations

Increased Activity in Left Ventricular Receptors during Hemorrhage or Occlusion of Caval Veins in the Cat. ‐ A Possible Cause of the Vaso‐vagal Reaction

1972 • 356 citations

A Lecture on VASOVAGAL SYNCOPE AND THE CAROTID SINUS MECHANISM

1932 • 351 citations

The Pressor Response to Water Drinking in Humans

2000 • 333 citations

Reflexes from the heart.

1991 • 326 citations

Sympathetic outflow to muscles during vasovagal syncope

1982 • 325 citations

On the vasodilatation in human skeletal muscle during post‐haemorrhagic fainting

1945 • 277 citations

Salt supplement increases plasma volume and orthostatic tolerance in patients with unexplained syncope.

1996 • 262 citations

Cerebral vasoconstriction during head-upright tilt-induced vasovagal syncope. A paradoxic and unexpected response.

1991 • 261 citations

Excitation of cholinergic vasodilator nerves to human skeletal muscles during emotional stress

1959 • 253 citations

Water Drinking Acutely Improves Orthostatic Tolerance in Healthy Subjects

2002 • 231 citations

Vasovagal reactions may occur after orthotopic heart transplantation

1993 • 212 citations

Cardiovascular dynamics during orthostasis and the influence of intravascular instrumentation

1966 • 174 citations

Combined head-up tilt and lower body suction: A test of orthostatic tolerance

1994 • 150 citations

Water ingestion increases sympathetic vasoconstrictor discharge in normal human subjects

2001 • 128 citations

The reflex effects of alterations in lung volume on systemic vascular resistance in the dog

1967 • 118 citations

Relationship between Plasma Volume, Carotid Baroreceptor Sensitivity and Orthostatic Tolerance

1995 • 107 citations

Effects of hemorrhage on renal nerve activity in conscious dogs.

1985 • 106 citations

Cardiovascular regulation in the period preceding vasovagal syncope in conscious humans

2003 • 102 citations

Effects of head-up tilting on baroreceptor control in subjects with different tolerances to orthostatic stress

2002 • 91 citations

Cholinergic vasodilator nerves.

1966 • 88 citations

Impaired immediate vasoconstrictor responses in patients with recurrent neurally mediated syncope

1993 • 83 citations

Control of reciprocal and non-reciprocal action of vagal and sympathetic efferents: Study of centrally induced reactions

1981 • 83 citations

Carotid Baroreceptor Reflexes in Humans During Orthostatic Stress

2001 • 82 citations

Is the heart ‘empty’ at syncope?

1996 • 76 citations

Cardiac pacing does not improve orthostatic tolerance in patients with vasovagal syncope

1994 • 73 citations

Carbon dioxide, critical closing pressure and cerebral haemodynamics prior to vasovagal syncope in humans

2001 • 71 citations

Forearm vascular responses during orthostatic stress in control subjects and patients with posturally related syncope

2000 • 68 citations

Left Ventricular Geometry and Function Preceding Neurally Mediated Syncope

2000 • 66 citations

Increased orthostatic tolerance following moderate exercise training in patients with unexplained syncope

1998 • 62 citations

Assessment of capillary fluid shifts during orthostatic stress in normal subjects and subjects with orthostatic intolerance

1999 • 59 citations

New insights into the mechanism of neurally mediated syncope

2002 • 44 citations

Reflex effects of independent stimulation of coronary and left ventricular mechanoreceptors in anaesthetised dogs

2000 • 29 citations

Heart rate and orthostatic stress

2000 • 27 citations

Modulation of K-Cl cotransport in volume-clamped low-K sheep erythrocytes by pH, magnesium, and ATP

1996 • 26 citations

Hind‐limb vascular‐capacitance responses in anaesthetized dogs.

1983 • 23 citations

Reflex vascular responses to abdominal venous distension in the anesthetized dog

1996 • 20 citations

The urinary bladder and cardiovascular reflexes

1989 • 20 citations

Permanent cardiac pacing as primary therapy for neurocardiogenic (reflex) syncope

2004 • 10 citations