BACKGROUND Prolonged corrected QT interval (QTc) holds independent prognostic importance in predicting mortality in patients with coronary artery disease, diabetes mellitus and congestive heart failure. However, its association with all cause or cardiac mortality in the general population remains unclear. We evaluated the relationship between prolonged QTc and total mortality among patients wit...

Pediatric syncope is a common problem that peaks in adolescence, for which there are few data or evidence-based consensus on investigation and management. This document offers guidance for practical evaluation/management of pediatric patients (age < 19 years) with syncope encountered in the acute or primary care setting. The writing committee used the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Dev...

BACKGROUND Syncope is a common clinical problem that often remains undiagnosed despite extensive and expensive diagnostic evaluation. OBJECTIVES To assess the diagnostic evaluation, costs and prognosis of patients hospitalized for syncope in a tertiary referral center according to discharge diagnosis. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients with a diagnosis of sy...

Sarcoidosis is a systemic disorder of unknown etiology with a wide variety of clinical and radiologic manifestations, most commonly pulmonary. We describe two patients with biopsy-proven sarcoidosis and an initial presentation of syncope. We present the results of multimodality imaging evaluation of these patients, with an emphasis on the spectrum of findings provided by cardiovascular magnetic...

AIMS EGSYS-U, EGSYS-M, and OESIL risk scores for syncope evaluation are introduced, evaluated retrospectively, and their ability to classify cardiac syncopes is compared. The specificity and sensitivity of the scores were analyzed. Guidelines for the practical application of the scoring systems are provided to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions. METHODS Retrospectively, 153 patients with ...

to our knowledge. The etiology of this emergency in surgery is nowadays quite lost sight of, and, what are unquestionably errors, are handed down from text-book to text-book, and taught in our schools, with the result, that, year by year, the deathroll from shock remains constant. From actual cases that have come under my own notice I should divide the etiology of shock (apart from mere cardiac...

Corresponding author: Marco Morosin MD Cardiovascular Deptartment Ospedali Riuniti Trieste Marco Morosin Via Valdoni 7 34149 Trieste, Italy Phone: +39 0403994477 E-mail: marco.morosin01@ gmail.com 1 Cardiovascular Department “Ospedali Riuniti” Trieste and Postgraduate School Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Trieste and Cardiology Department “Santa Maria degli Angeli” Hospital, Pordenone, ...

The most common form of cardiac arrhythmia in children is sinus tachycardia which can be caused by fever. Bradycardia can occur in children due to a depressed sinus node as is seen in hypoxemia, acidosis, or structural heart disease. A complete heart block is another possible cause of a slow heart rate in children. Patients can present with palpitations, presyncope, syncope, dizziness and confu...