Why the study?
Does cardiac pacing prevent syncope or improve symptoms in patients with vasovagal syncope?
Population
Patients with vasovagal syncope
Design
Review
Follow-up
50 months (in referenced retrospective assessment)
Authors
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Does not support pacing to prevent tilt-induced vasovagal syncope; leaves open symptom palliation in cardioinhibitory cases pending randomized data.
Does cardiac pacing prevent syncope or improve symptoms in patients with vasovagal syncope?
While cardiac pacing does not prevent the onset of tilt-induced vasovagal syncope, it may prolong the presyncopal period and improve symptoms in patients with a prominent cardioinhibitory component.
PETERSEN et al. (1997) studied this question.
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