title: Syncope in Patients with Organic Heart Disease.
abstract: Patients with syncope and organic heart disease remain a small but important subset of those patients who experience transient loss of consciousness. These patients require thoughtful and complete evaluation in an attempt to better understand the mechanism of syncope and its relationship to the underlying disease, and to diagnose and treat both properly. The goal is to reduce the risk of further syncope, to improve long-term outcomes with respect to arrhythmic and total mortality, and to improve patients' quality of life.
authors.affiliation: University of Iowa Hospitals, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. Electronic address: brian-olshansky@uiowa.edu.
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Olshansky
authors.affiliation: University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Renee M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Sullivan
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D013575:Syncope / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology
keywords: Arrhythmia; Cardiomyopathy; Organic heart disease; Syncope