Key result
The diagnostic workup of unexplained syncope depends on the presence or absence of structural heart disease, which is the most important predictor of death and ventricular arrhythmia.
Design
Review
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Guides syncope risk stratification by structural heart disease; leaves open prospective validation of this approach.
This review outlines the etiology of syncope and provides a structured diagnostic approach based on the presence or absence of structural heart disease.
Elias B. Hanna (2014) conducted a review in Syncope. The diagnostic workup of unexplained syncope depends on the presence or absence of structural heart disease, which is the most important predictor of death and ventricular arrhythmia.
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