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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816066603321

Titolo

Syncope : mechanisms and management / / edited by Blair P. Grubb, Brian Olshansky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Futura, c2005

ISBN

1-280-19696-3

9786610196968

0-470-98480-5

0-470-99480-0

1-4051-4381-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 368 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

GrubbBlair P

OlshanskyBrian

Disciplina

616/.047

Soggetti

Syncope (Pathology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Syncope : an overview of evaluation and management / Brian Olshansky -- Neurocardiogenic syncope / Blair P. Grubb -- Dysautonomic (orthostatic) syncope / Blair P. Grubb -- Bradyarrhythmias as a cause of syncope / David Benditt and Richard Sutton -- Tachyarrhythmias as a cause of syncope / Frank Pelosi and Fred Morady -- Use of electrophysiologic studies in syncope : practical aspects of diagnosis and management / Edward Telfer and Brian Olshansky -- Tilt table testing / Michele Brignole -- Use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators in patients with syncope / Brian Olshansky -- Neurologic causes of syncope / Philip Low -- Structural and obstructive causes of cardiovascular syncope / Yousuf Kanjwal and Blair P. Grubb -- Inherited arrhythmic and related causes of syncope / Blair P. Grubb and Brian Olshansky -- Psychiatric disorders in patients with syncope / Angele McGrady and Ronald McGinnis --

Postural tachycardia, orthostatic intolerance, and the chronic fatigue -- Syndrome / Blair P. Grubb, Peter Rowe, and Hugh Calkins -- Carotid sinus hypersensitivity / Rose Anne Kenny and Steve W. Parry -- Miscellaneous causes of syncope / Daniel J. Kosinski and Blair P. Grubb



-- Syncope in the child and adolescent / Blair P. Grubb and Richard Friedman -- Syncope in the athlete / Olaf Hedrich ... [et al.] -- Syncope in the elderly / Lewis Lipsitz and Blair P. Grubb -- The implantable loop recorder for diagnosis of unexplained syncope / Andrew D. Krahn ... [et al.] -- Driving and syncope / Brian Olshansky and Blair P. Grubb -- Syncope and the law / Mark J. Zucker and Gerald Bloch.

Sommario/riassunto

The second edition of Syncope: Mechanisms and Management has been completely updated and revised and remains the most comprehensive textbook ever published on this common clinical entity. It provides up-to-date coverage of virtually every known cause of syncope, integrating knowledge of pathophysiology with practical guidelines for diagnosis and management.