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Summary

This volume is based on the ESC Guidelines on the Management (Diagnosis and Treatment) of Syncope and provides specific recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of syncope. It covers the most important clinical aspects related to the evaluation and treatment of patients with this condition:- What are the diagnostic criteria for causes of syncope?- What is the preferred approach to the diagnostic work-up in various sub-groups of patients with syncope?- How should patients with syncope be risk stratified?- When should patients with syncope be hospitalised?- Which treatments are likely to be effective in preventing syncope recurrences?Information is presented in a succinct style for practising physicians who encounter patients with syncope. It is also of particular value to practitioners in emergency medicine, primary care, internal medicine, neurology and pediatrics.The ESC Education SeriesThis book is part of the ESC Education Series. The series is designed to provide medical professionals with the latest information about the understanding, diagnosis and management of cardiovascular diseases. Where available, management recommendations are based on the established European Guidelines, which encompass the best techniques to use with each cardiac disease. Throughout the series, the leading international opinion leaders have been chosen to edit and contribute to the books. The information is presented in a succinct and accessible format with a clinical focus.

List of contributors,

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Introduction,

Michele Brignole

Section one: Definition, pathophysiology, epidemiology

Chapter 1 Syncope: definition, classification, and multiple potential causes,

(8)

Jean-Jacques Blanc, David G Benditt

Chapter 2 Pathophysiology and clinical presentation,

(12)

Wouter Wieling, J Gert var Dijk, Johannes J van Lieshout, David G Benditt

Chapter 3 Epidemiology and social costs,

(8)

Rose Arne Kenny, Wishwa N Kapoor

Section two: Syncope evaluation strategy

Chapter 4 Overview of recommended diagnostic strategies,

(7)

Richard Sutton, Michele Brignole

Chapter 5 Initial evaluation of the syncope patient,

(13)

Part 1 Medical history and basic laboratory assessment,

(8)

Antonio Raviele, Paolo Albori, Richard Sutton, Rose Anne Kenny

Part 2 Role of defined questionnaire for diagnosis of syncope and other forms of transient loss of consciousness,

(5)

Robert Sheldon

Chapter 6 Which syncope patients should be evaluated and treated in hospital, and which can be managed as outpatients?

(4)

David G Benditt

Chapter 7 Organizing management of syncope in the hospital and clinic (the syncope unit),

(8)

Rose Anne Kenny, Michele Brignole

Section three: Guide to selection of diagnostic procedures

Chapter 8 Ambulatory electrocardiographic (AECG) monitoring for evaluation of syncope,

(8)

Adam P Fitzpatrick

Chapter 9 The basic autonomic assessment,

(9)

Richard Sutton, David G Benditt

Chapter 10 Role of electrophysiologic testing in the syncope evaluation,

(16)

Fei Lu, Lennart Bergfeldt

Chapter 11 Additional diagnostic testing for selected syncope patients,

(6)

Lennart Bergfeldt, David G Benditt, Piotr Kulakowski, Michele Brignole

Chapter 12 Neurologic diagnostic procedures in syncope,

102

(5)

J Gert van Dijk

Chapter 13 Contribution of psychiatric disorders to apparent syncope,

107

(8)

George Theodorakis

Section four: Causes of syncope and syncope mimics, and treatment

Chapter 14 Specific causes of syncope: their evaluation and treatment strategies,

115

(48)

Part 1 Neurally mediated reflex syncope,

115

(8)

David G Benditt, Jean-Jacques Blanc

Part 2 Orthostatic syncope,

123

(14)

Angel Moya, Wouter Wieling

Part 3 Cardiac arrhythmias as a primary cause of syncope,

137

(17)

Angel Moya

Part 4 Structural cardiac and pulmonary causes of syncope,

154

(6)

Jean-Jacques Blanc, David G Benditt

Part 5 Cerebrovascular disorders as the primary cause of syncope,

160

(3)

J Gert van Dijk

Chapter 15 Syncope and other causes of transient loss of consciousness in children, teenagers and adolescents,

163

(15)

Wouter Wieling, Karin S Ganzeboom, Jan Janousek

Chapter 16 Syncope in the older adult (including driving implications),

178

(6)

David G Benditt, Rose Anne Kenny

Chapter 17 Conditions that mimic syncope,

184

(17)

J Gert van Dijk

Chapter 18 Whom to treat,

201

(4)

Michele Brignole, Rose Anne Kenny

Selected references published since 1990,

205

(22)

Index,

227

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