List of contributors, |
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Introduction, |
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Section one: Definition, pathophysiology, epidemiology |
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Chapter 1 Syncope: definition, classification, and multiple potential causes, |
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Jean-Jacques Blanc, David G. Benditt |
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Chapter 2 What is syncope and what is not syncope: the importance of definitions, |
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J. Gert van Dijk, Adam Fitzpatrick |
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Chapter 3 Pathophysiology and clinical presentation, |
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Wouter Wieling, J. Gert van Dijk, Johannes J. van Lieshout, David G. Benditt |
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Chapter 4 Maintaining blood pressure while upright: physiology and potential for disturbances to cause syncope, |
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29 | (11) |
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Chapter 5 Epidemiology and social costs of syncope, |
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40 | (7) |
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Rose Anne Kenny, Wishwa N. Kapoor |
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Section two: Syncope evaluation strategy |
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Chapter 6 Overview of recommended diagnostic strategies, |
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Richard Sutton, Michele Brignole |
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Chapter 7 Initial evaluation of the syncope patient, |
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Antonio Raviele, Paolo Alboni |
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Chapter 8 The role of the prepared questionnaire in initial evaluation of transient losses of consciousness, |
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Anna Serletis, Robert S. Sheldon |
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Chapter 9 Who should be evaluated and treated in hospital, and who can be managed as an outpatient?, |
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Chapter 10 Organizing management of syncope in the hospital and clinic (the syncope unit), |
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75 | (6) |
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Rose Anne Kenny, Michele Brignole |
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Chapter 11 Impact of syncope guidelines on clinical care, |
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Section three: Specific diagnostic procedures |
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Chapter 12 Ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring for evaluation of syncope, |
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Adam Fitzpatrick, David G. Benditt |
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Chapter 13 Hemodynamic sensors: the future evaluation of syncope, |
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96 | (6) |
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Chapter 14 The basic autonomic assessment, |
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Richard Sutton, David G. Benditt |
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Chapter 15 Electrophysiological testing, |
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113 | (17) |
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Fei Liu, Lennart Bergfeldt |
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Chapter 16 Miscellaneous diagnostic procedures: when are they indicated?, |
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Lennart Bergfeldt, Piotr Kulakowski |
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Chapter 17 Neurologic diagnostic procedures in syncope, |
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136 | (6) |
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Chapter 18 Contribution of psychiatric disorders to apparent syncope, |
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142 | (11) |
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Section four: Causes of syncope and syncope mimics, and treatment |
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Michele Brignole, Rose Anne Kenny |
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Chapter 20 Specific causes of syncope: their evaluation and treatment strategies, |
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Part 1 Neurally mediated reflex syncope, |
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159 | (11) |
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David G. Benditt, Jean-Jacques Blanc |
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Part 2 Orthostatic syncope, |
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170 | (15) |
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Angel Maya, Wouter Wieling |
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Part 3 Cardiac arrhythmias and conduction system disease as a primary cause of syncope, |
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185 | (20) |
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Part 4 Structural cardiac and pulmonary causes of syncope, |
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Jean-Jacques Blanc, Jan Janousek |
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Part 5 Cerebrovascular disorders as the primary cause of syncope, |
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213 | (3) |
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Chapter 21 Syncope and other causes of transient loss of consciousness in children, teenagers, and adolescents, |
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Wouter Wieling, Karin S. Ganzeboom, Jan Janousek |
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Chapter 22 Syncope in the older adult (including driving implications), |
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Rose Anne Kenny, David G. Benditt |
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Chapter 23 Conditions that mimic syncope, |
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242 | (17) |
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Section five: Selected references since 1990, |
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Index, |
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