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Anticoagulation therapy in older patients at risk for syncopal and not-syncopal fall and/or frailty. An AcEMC-GIMSI multidisciplinary consensus document

Emergency Care Journal, 2020
In aged patients, the most frequent indications for anticoagulation are atrial fibrillation (AF) and venous thromboembolism for stroke and systemic embolism prevention.
Ivo Casagranda, Andrea Ungar, Carolina Prevaldi, Pasquale Abete, Sergio Biagioni, Attilio Del Rosso, Michele Diamanti, Alessandra Fanciulli, Stefano Fumagalli, Raffaello Furlan, Roberto Lerza, Carlo Locatelli, Roberto Maggi, Chiara Mussi, Filippo Numeroso, Filippo Rabajoli, Sophie Testa, Marco Tomaino, Michele Brignole   +18 more
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“Be Careful What You Swallow”

JACC: Case Reports, 2021
Swallow (deglutition) syncope is a rare form of neurally mediated cardioinhibitory reflex syncope occurring during swallowing. Patients may present to clinicians across multiple disciplines, so high awareness and careful evaluation are essential.
Melanie Dani, MBBS, PhD, Andreas Dirksen, MSc, Patricia Taraborrelli, MSc, PhD, Miriam Toro Castro, BSc (Hons), Dimitrios Panagopoulos, MBBS, Richard Sutton, MBBS, DSc, Phang Boon Lim, MA, PhD   +6 more
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Evaluation of Patients with Syncope in the Emergency Department: How to Adjust Pharmacological Therapy

Medicina, 2021
The rate of syncope in the Emergency Department ranges between 0.9 and 1.7%. Syncope is mostly related to a underlying reflex or orthostatic mechanism. A bradycardic or a hypotensive phenotype, may be identified.
Martina Rafanelli, Giuseppe Dario Testa, Giulia Rivasi, Andrea Ungar   +3 more
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A case report of lithium-induced bradycardia and syncope [PDF]

Eur Psychiatry
Kilinc M, Mutlu E, Demir B.
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ST-elevation during head up tilt test: a challenging case in syncope unit

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2020
A 65-year-old woman, during an elective head up tilt test, after the sublingual nitrate administration, experienced electrocardiogram alteration with ST elevation in the inferior leads, that returned normal when the patient was laid supine after few ...
Andreina Carbone, Vincenzo Avitabile, Paolo Golino, Gerardo Nigro, Vincenzo Russo   +4 more
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Double-Outlet Left Ventricle: Case Series and Systematic Review of the Literature

Diagnostics, 2023
Double-outlet left ventricle (DOLV) is an abnormal ventriculo-arterial connection characterized by the origin of both great arteries from the morphological left ventricle. The aim of our paper is to describe the morphological and imaging features of DOLV
Michele Lioncino, Giulio Calcagni, Fausto Badolato, Giovanni Antonelli, Benedetta Leonardi, Andrea de Zorzi, Aurelio Secinaro, Gianluca Brancaccio, Sonia Albanese, Adriano Carotti, Fabrizio Drago, Gabriele Rinelli   +11 more
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Neurohormones in the Pathophysiology of Vasovagal Syncope in Adults

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2020
Vasovagal syncope (VVS) is the most common cause of syncope across all age groups. Nonetheless, despite its clinical importance and considerable research effort over many years, the pathophysiology of VVS remains incompletely understood.
David G. Benditt, J. Gert van Dijk, Darshan Krishnappa, Wayne O. Adkisson, Scott Sakaguchi   +4 more
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Management of transient loss of consciousness of suspected syncopal cause, after the initial evaluation in the Emergency Department

Emergency Care Journal, 2016
The recommendations enclosed in the present document have been developed by a group of experts appointed by the Gruppo Multidisciplinare per lo Studio della Sincope (Multidisciplinary Group for the Study of Syncope; GIMSI) and Academy of Emergency ...
Ivo Casagranda, Michele Brignole, Simone Cencetti, Gianfranco Cervellin, Giorgio Costantino, Raffaello Furlan, Gianluigi Mossini, Filippo Numeroso, Massimo Pesenti Campagnoni, Paolo Pinna Parpaglia, Martina Rafanelli, Andrea Ungar   +11 more
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Utilizing the Boston Syncope Observation Management Pathway to Reduce Hospital Admission and Decrease Adverse Outcomes [PDF]

, 2019
Introduction: In an age of increasing scrutiny of each hospital admission, emergency department (ED) observation has been identified as a low-cost alternative. Prior studies have shown admission rates for syncope in the United States to be as high as 70%.
Grossman, Shamai A., Lopez, Gregory J., Mechanic, Oren J., Pascheles, Celine Y., Shapiro, Nathan I., Tibbles, Carrie, Winans, Alina M., Wolfe, Richard E.   +7 more
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Cardiac pacing in severe recurrent reflex syncope and tilt-induced asystole

European Heart Journal, 2020
Aim The benefit of cardiac pacing in patients with severe recurrent reflex syncope and asystole induced by tilt testing has not been established. The usefulness of tilt-table test to select candidates for cardiac pacing is controversial.
M. Brignole, V. Russo, F. Arabia, Mário Oliveira, A. Pedrote, A. Aerts, A. Rapacciuolo, S. Boveda, J. Deharo, G. Maglia, G. Nigro, D. Giacopelli, A. Gargaro, M. Tomaino   +13 more
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