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Tilt Testing with Combined Lower Body Negative Pressure: a "Gold Standard" for Measuring Orthostatic Tolerance
Published on: March 21, 2013
Tilt-induced cardioinhibitory syncope: a follow-up study in 16 patients
Pietro Guaraldi1, Giovanna Calandra-Buonaura, Rossana Terlizzi
1IRCCS, Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche, Università di Bologna, Via Ugo Foscolo, 7, 40123 Bologna, Italy. pietro.guaraldi@unibo.it
Introduction:
The exact clinical and prognostic significance and the therapeutic implications of asystole induced by head-up tilt test are still a matter of debate.
Methods:
We assessed, by means of a semi-structured interview, the long-term outcome of cardioinhibitory syncope in all the patients who presented a tilt-induced sinus arrest of more than 3 s in our Autonomic Unit between 1996 and 2010.
Conclusions:
Although syncopal recurrences were common, tilt-induced asystole did not imply a poor prognosis in terms of death or major therapeutic procedures.
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