Journal article
Syncope: etiology and diagnostic approach
Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine, Vol.81(12), pp.755-766
12/2014
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.81a.13152
PMID: 25452354
Abstract
There are three major types of syncope: neurally mediated (the most common), orthostatic hypotensive, and cardiac (the most worrisome). Several studies have shown a normal long-term survival rate in patients with syncope who have no structural heart disease, which is the most important predictor of death and ventricular arrhythmia. The workup of unexplained syncope depends on the presence or absence of heart disease: electrophysiologic study if the patient has heart disease, tilt-table testing in those without heart disease, and prolonged rhythm monitoring in both cases if syncope remains unexplained.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Syncope: etiology and diagnostic approach
- Creators
- Elias B Hanna - Louisiana State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine, Vol.81(12), pp.755-766
- DOI
- 10.3949/ccjm.81a.13152
- PMID
- 25452354
- ISSN
- 0891-1150
- eISSN
- 1939-2869
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2014
- Academic Unit
- Cardiovascular Medicine; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984359884202771
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