Syncope: Difference between revisions

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===Treatment===
===Treatment===
Syncope due to documented cardiac arrhythmias must receive treatment appropriate to the cause in all patients. Cardiac pacing, ICDs, and catheter ablation are the usual treatments of syncope due to cardiac arrhythmias, depending on the mechanism of syncope. For structural heart diseases treatment is best directed at amelioration of the specific structural lesion or its consequences.
===References===
* Moya A et al. Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of syncope. Eur Heart J 2009; 30:2631-71
* Hainsworth R. Pathophysiology of syncope. Clin Auton Res 2004; 14: Suppl 1:18-24
* Freeman R et al. Consensus statement on the definition of orthostatic hypotension, neurally mediated syncope and the postural tachycardia syndrome. Clin Auton Res 2011; 21:69-72
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