INTRODUCTION Our aim was to determine the characteristics of patients presenting with syncope at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. METHODS A review of medical records was conducted retrospectively at the Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. Patients aged 16 and above, admitted from January 2000 to December 2005 with the diagnosis of syncope made by the a...

PURPOSE The gender difference of neurally mediated syncope is not well defined in a large patient population. The aim of this study was to evaluate the gender difference of clinical manifestations in patients with neurally mediated syncope who underwent head-up tilt test. MATERIALS AND METHODS The medical records of 1,051 consecutive patients with two or more episodes of syncope, who were dia...

AIMS The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of introducing a European Society of Cardiology guideline-based Integrated Care Plan (ICP) for Syncope on hospital admissions and referral patterns to an outpatient Syncope Management Unit, of patients presenting to an Emergency Department (ED) with a syncopal episode and to determine the underlying causes of syncope. METHODS AND RESULTS T...

BACKGROUND The primary aim and central hypothesis of the study are that a designated syncope unit in the emergency department improves diagnostic yield and reduces hospital admission for patients with syncope who are at intermediate risk for an adverse cardiovascular outcome. METHODS AND RESULTS In this prospective, randomized, single-center study, patients were randomly allocated to 2 treatm...

Syncope is a frequent clinical manifestation and represents 1–2% of emergency room visits and frequently leads to hospital admission and expensive and frequently unnecessary diagnostic tests. The cause of syncope is frequently reflex mediated, and particularly vasovagal responses closely followed by orthostatic hypotension and drug-induced syncope are the main causes. By and large, the prognosi...

Australia experienced a large influx of European migrants during the period 1950-1975. The descriptive epidemiological data on cancer rates within the major migrant groups, reviewed here, provide strong evidence of environmental and behavioral influences on the etiology of various cancers. The opportunity to extend the conventional type of data analysis, to include an examination of the effect ...

The incidence of syncope peaks in early working age, yet there are few data on its impact on occupational safety and employment. The consequences of syncope in the workplace are important to establish because the lifetime prevalence of syncope is 35%, and one third of patients experience recurrent syncope within few years. Approximately 3.4 million workers are treated in emergency departments f...

Background Syncope is frequently seen in the Emergency Department (ED) and is a cause for numerous hospitalizations. Focusing primarily on syncope, the aim of this study was to determine the frequency and the underlying causes of transient loss of consciousness in patients seen in the ED. Furthermore, the aim was to identify the indications for admittance and discharge of patients with syncope ...

Swallow syncope (also known as deglutition syncope) is a relatively rare type of syncope that is treatable if diagnosed correctly. We report a case of a 39-year-old man with recurrent swallow syncope. The patient did not have structural heart disease. He developed a complete atrioventricular block upon drinking a cold beverage (Chilsung cider) while undergoing a repeated head-up tilt test. The ...

Pulmonary Embolism andDeepVenous Thrombosis in Patients HospitalizedWith Syncope: AMulticenter Cross-sectional Study in Toronto, Ontario, Canada The prevalence of pulmonary embolism (PE) among patients hospitalized with syncope is uncertain. The recently published Pulmonary Embolism in Syncope Italian Trial (PESIT)1 systematically evaluatedpatientshospitalizedwith a first episode of syncope and...