Affiliations 

  • 1 Ageing and Age-Associated Disorders Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 Regional Medical Physics Department, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
  • 3 Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom; Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
  • 4 Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom; Falls and Syncope Service, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
PLoS One, 2015;10(6):e0126241.
PMID: 26057525 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126241

Abstract

Carotid sinus syndrome is the association of carotid sinus hypersensitivity with syncope, unexplained falls and drop attacks in generally older people. We evaluated cardiac sympathetic innervation in this disorder in individuals with carotid sinus syndrome, asymptomatic carotid sinus hypersensitivity and controls without carotid sinus hypersensitivity.

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