title: Proposed electrocardiographic classification of spontaneous syncope documented by an implantable loop recorder.
abstract: Uniform data from the literature show that the mechanism of syncope recorded by implantable loop recorder is extremely heterogeneous and a wide variety of rhythm disturbances is recorded at the time of syncope. Therefore, the proposed classification aims to group the observations into homogeneous patterns in order to define an acceptable standard useful for future studies and clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Ospedali del Tigullio, 16032 Lavagna, Italy. mbrignole@asl4.liguria.it
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brignole
authors.forename: Angel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moya
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Menozzi
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Garcia-Civera
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sutton
mesh_terms: D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory; D006801:Humans; D013575:Syncope / Q000145:classification* / Q000503:physiopathology