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| Steve W ParrySummaryAffiliation: Freeman Hospital Country: UK Publications
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Drop attacks in older adults: systematic assessment has a high diagnostic yieldSteve W Parry
Falls and Syncope Service and Institute for Aging and Health, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:74-8. 2005..To investigate the causes of recurrent drop attacks in older patients with a comprehensive battery of investigations in the largest series reported to date...
'Front-loaded' head-up tilt table testing: validation of a rapid first line nitrate-provoked tilt protocol for the diagnosis of vasovagal syncopeSteve W Parry
Falls and Syncope Service and Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP, UK
Age Ageing 37:411-5. 2008..06, 27.4). The front-loaded GTN protocol provided a higher diagnostic rate than passive tilt testing, and provides a rapid alternative to conventional methods, though false positivity rates are higher...- The relationship between carotid sinus hypersensitivity, orthostatic hypotension, and vasovagal syncope: a case-control studyMaw Pin Tan
Institute for Ageing and Health, Wolfson Centre, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Europace 10:1400-5. 2008..We conducted a case-control study evaluating this relationship in a large patient cohort... 
Cerebral autoregulation is impaired in cardioinhibitory carotid sinus syndromeS W Parry
Cardiovascular Investigation Unit, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Heart 92:792-7. 2006..To compare changes in cerebral autoregulation in response to controlled, lower body negative pressure-induced hypotension in patients with carotid sinus syndrome (CSS) and case controls...- Home orthostatic training in vasovagal syncope modifies autonomic tone: results of a randomized, placebo-controlled pilot studyMaw Pin Tan
Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Europace 12:240-6. 2010..To detect possible autonomic changes due to home orthostatic training (HOT) and to assess the feasibility of a larger, placebo-controlled study of HOT in vasovagal syncope (VVS)... - White matter changes in late-life depression: a diffusion tensor imaging studySean J Colloby
Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5PL, UK
J Affect Disord 135:216-20. 2011..The objective was to investigate the integrity of white matter tracts in subjects with LLD compared to similar aged healthy individuals using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)... - Carotid sinus hypersensitivity: disease state or clinical sign of ageing? Insights from a controlled study of autonomic function in symptomatic and asymptomatic subjectsMaw Pin Tan
Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Europace 12:1630-6. 2010.... - Relationship of orthostatic blood pressure to white matter hyperintensities and subcortical volumes in late-life depressionSean J Colloby
Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Br J Psychiatry 199:404-10. 2011..There is strong evidence linking vascular disease to WMH, but limited evidence on its association with subcortical volumes... - Vasovagal syncope in the older person: differences in presentation between older and younger patientsGordon W Duncan
Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Age Ageing 39:465-70. 2010..To address this issue, we investigated the age distribution and differences in clinical characteristics associated with age in patients diagnosed with VVS by HUTT at our tertiary referral centre... - Impedance cardiography: a role in vasovagal syncope diagnosis?Steve W Parry
Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5PL, UK
Age Ageing 38:718-23. 2009..Alternative methods of diagnosing vasovagal syncope would thus be useful... - Evidence-based algorithms and the management of falls and syncope presenting to acute medical servicesSteve W Parry
Falls and Syncope Service and Institute for Ageing and Health, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne
Clin Med 8:157-62. 2008..Easy-to-use algorithms can help reduce the number of patients admitted to acute medical services with falls and syncope while optimising the care of those managed as inpatients. The algorithms are provided for use by interested parties... - Amnesia for loss of consciousness in carotid sinus syndrome: implications for presentation with fallsSteve W Parry
Falls and Syncope Service and Institute for Ageing and Health, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
J Am Coll Cardiol 45:1840-3. 2005..The goal of this study was to compare the clinical characteristics of patients with carotid sinus syndrome who presented with falls with those who presented with syncope... - Vasovagal syncope in the older patientMaw Pin Tan
Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
J Am Coll Cardiol 51:599-606. 2008..This is a review of the existing literature on the epidemiology, clinical characteristics, diagnostic tools, and treatment strategies for VVS in older patients, highlighting important areas for future research... - Adenosine test in the diagnosis of unexplained syncope: marker of conducting tissue disease or neurally mediated syncope?Steve W Parry
Falls and Syncope Service, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Eur Heart J 27:1396-400. 2006..In this article, we review the possible mechanisms underlying a positive adenosine test, its safety, and a comprehensive examination of the literature supporting each of the putative causal diagnoses... - Cortical thickness and VBM-DARTEL in late-life depressionSean J Colloby
Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5PL, UK
J Affect Disord 133:158-64. 2011..The objective was to investigate GM changes in older depressed and similar aged healthy subjects using two different methods, cortical thickness in frontal lobe structures and voxel-based morphometry (VBM)... - Monitoring devices for falls and syncopeColette M Seifer
Cardiovascular Investigation Unit, Institute for the Health of the Elderly, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, United Kingdom
Clin Geriatr Med 18:295-306. 2002..Twenty-four-hour measurements of ambulatory blood pressure generally are not diagnostically helpful in patients who experience falls or syncope but do have a role in the monitoring of therapeutic interventions... - Vasovagal syncope masquerading as unexplained falls in an elderly patientSteve W Parry
University of Newcastle and Institute for the Health of the Elderly, Cardiovascular Investigation Unit, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Can J Cardiol 18:757-8. 2002..During head-up tilt testing, the patient had vasodepressor vasovagal syncope. Afterwards, she had amnesia from loss of consciousness. Her symptoms (falls) responded to the withdrawal of culprit medications... - Unprovoked and glyceryl trinitrate-provoked head-up tilt table test is safe in older people: a review of 10 years' experienceZbigniew J Gieroba
Flinders University Department of Rehabilitation and Aged Care, Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park, South Australia
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:1913-5. 2004..01). There was one cardiovascular and no neurological complications. CONCLUSION: This study included 10 times as many people as previous studies and demonstrates the safety of HUT in older people...