Long-term outcome of patients with recurrent syncope of unknown cause in the absence of organic heart disease and relation to results of baseline tilt table testing.

Cardiology Department, University of Athens, Athens, Greece. kgatzoulis@med.uoa.gr

Among 123 patients with unexplained syncope in the absence of heart disease who were followed up for 24 +/- 7 months, syncope recurred in a similar minority of them regardless of baseline tilt table testing results. An initially unsuspected cardiac or neuropsychiatric disorder was uncovered in 17 patients later on follow-up examination.

PMID: 14516899 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]