Syncope in Patients with Organic Heart Disease

Brian Olshansky; Renee M Sullivan

doi:10.1016/j.ccl.2015.04.013

Syncope in Patients with Organic Heart Disease

Cardiol Clin. 2015 Aug;33(3):449-63. doi: 10.1016/j.ccl.2015.04.013.

Authors

Brian Olshansky¹, Renee M Sullivan²

Affiliations

¹ University of Iowa Hospitals, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. Electronic address: brian-olshansky@uiowa.edu.
² University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.

PMID: 26115831
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccl.2015.04.013

Abstract

Patients with syncope and organic heart disease remain a small but important subset of those patients who experience transient loss of consciousness. These patients require thoughtful and complete evaluation in an attempt to better understand the mechanism of syncope and its relationship to the underlying disease, and to diagnose and treat both properly. The goal is to reduce the risk of further syncope, to improve long-term outcomes with respect to arrhythmic and total mortality, and to improve patients' quality of life.

Keywords: Arrhythmia; Cardiomyopathy; Organic heart disease; Syncope.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Diagnosis, Differential
Electrocardiography*
Heart Diseases / complications*
Heart Rate / physiology*
Humans
Prognosis
Syncope* / diagnosis
Syncope* / etiology
Syncope* / physiopathology