Management of Patients With Unexplained Syncope: Derivation and Validation of a Simplified 2-Step Diagnostic Approach.
Ioannis DoundoulakisDimitrios TsiachrisAthanasios KordalisLeonidas KoliastasisStergios SoulaidopoulosPetros ArsenosAnastasia XintarakouLamprini Iro BartsiokaPolychronis E DilaverisCharalambos VlachopoulosSkevos SiderisKonstantinos P TsioufisChristos-Konstantinos AntoniouPublished in: Journal of the American Heart Association (2023)
The low number needed to treat in the derivation cohort and the low percentage of syncope recurrence in the validation cohort supports the proposed 2-step electrophysiology-inclusive algorithm as a potentially low-cost, 1-day, structured tool for these patients.