Syncope in the elderly

LA LIPSITZ - Annals of internal medicine, 1983 - acpjournals.org
Syncope is a common, potentially dangerous manifestation of transient cerebral dysfunction
that often remains unexplained despite medical evaluation. In elderly persons the cause of …

Evaluation and outcome of emergency room patients with transient loss of consciousness

SC Day, EF Cook, H Funkenstein, L Goldman - The American journal of …, 1982 - Elsevier
We identified 198 patients who presented to our emergency room with transient loss of
consciousness. Seizures (29 percent of patients) and vasovagal/psychogenic episodes (40 …

Prognostic value of exercise thallium-201 imaging in patients presenting for evaluation of chest pain

KA Brown, CA Boucher, RD Okada, TE Guiney… - Journal of the American …, 1983 - Elsevier
Accurate prognostic information is important in determining optimal management of patients
presenting for evaluation of chest pain. In this study, the ability of exercise thallium-201 …

Prognostic significance of ventricular ectopic activity in survivors of acute myocardial infarction

JB Kostis, R Byington, LM Friedman, S Goldstein… - Journal of the American …, 1987 - Elsevier
Twenty-four hour ambulatory electrocardiography was performed on 3,290 survivors of
acute myocardial infarction participating in the Beta-Blocker Heart Attack Trial (BHAT) …

Cardiovascular complaints: correlation with cardiac arrhythmias on 24-hour electrocardiographic monitoring

SM Zeldis, BJ Levine, EL Michelscn, J Morganroth - Chest, 1980 - Elsevier
Long-term ambulatory electrocardiographic (Holter) monitoring is frequently used to
evaluate patients with various cardiovascular complaints, including palpitations, dyspnea …

Prognostic value of ventricular arrhythmias associated with treadmill exercise testing in patients studied with cardiac catheterization for suspected ischemic heart …

RM Califf, RA McKinnis, JF McNeer… - Journal of the American …, 1983 - Elsevier
The prognostic information provided by ventricular arrhythmias associated with treadmill
exercise testing was evaluated in 1,293 consecutive nonsurgically treated patients …

Ambulatory electrocardiography and the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of chronic ventricular arrhythmias

RA Winkle - Progress in cardiovascular diseases, 1980 - Elsevier
During the past 15 yr there has been widespread interest in ventricular arrhythmias and
sudden death. During this period, technical advances have improved our ability to record …

Electrophysiologic and hemodynamic studies in patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest

ME Josephson, LN Horowitz, SR Spielman… - The American journal of …, 1980 - Elsevier
Fifty-two patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest underwent electrophysiologic studies. The
earliest documented arrhythmia at the time of initial or recurrent (18 patients) cardiac arrest …

Programmed electrical stimulation in patients with high-grade ventricular ectopy: electrophysiologic findings and prognosis for survival.

JA Gomes, RI Hariman, PS Kang, N El-Sherif… - Circulation, 1984 - Am Heart Assoc
The significance and treatment of ventricular premature beats (VPBs) in patients without
sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT), sudden death, or syncope remains unclear. We …

Risk stratification using heart rate turbulence and ventricular arrhythmia in MADIT II: usefulness and limitations of a 10‐minute holter recording

A Berkowitsch, W Zareba, T Neumann… - Annals of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Background: We evaluated the usefulness of heart rate turbulence (HRT) parameters and
frequency of ventricular premature beats (VPBs) for risk‐stratifying postinfarction patients …