L Lipsitz, BP Grubb - Syncope: mechanisms and management, 2005 - books.google.com CHAPTER 18 Syncope in the elderly Lewis Lipsitz, MD, & Blair P. Grubb, MD
Introduction Syncope, defined as the transient loss of conscious- ness and
postural tone with spontaneous recovery, is a common clinical problem. ... Cited by 104 - Related articles - All 6 versions
W Kapoor, D Snustad, J Peterson, HS Wieand … - The American journal of medicine, 1986 - Elsevier This report describes the evaluation of syncope in 210 elderly patients as
compared with 190 younger patients. The elderly group had a mean age of 71 years
(range 60 to 90) and the younger group had a mean age of 39 years (range 15 ... Cited by 146 - Related articles - All 4 versions
G Azhar, L Lipsite, 1998 - books.google.com Chapter 15 Syncope in the Elderly Gohar Azhar, MBBS and Lewis A. Lipsitz, MD
lntroduction Syncope is a common and potentially life threatening syndrome that
increases in prevalence with age'and is associated with high morbidity ... Cited by 2 - Related articles
D Živkov-Šaponja, V Topalov, D Kovačević - Medicina danas, 2007 - CEON/ CEES U starijem životnom dobu, sinkope predstavljaju specifičnu vrstu tegoba, jer
je ovo životno doba praćeno čitavim nizom stanja, koja su posledica bržeg
propadanja nekih fizioloških funkcija, a koje mogu predisponirati sinkopu. ... Related articles - Cached
LA LIPSITZ, JY WEI, JW ROWE - QJM, 1985 - Oxford Univ Press Although syncope is common in the elderly, little is known of its epidemiology
and prognosis. A retrospective analysis of syncope in 711 very old (mean age 87
years) institutionalised patients revealed a 10 year prevalence of 23 per ... Cited by 179 - Related articles - All 2 versions
LA Lipsitz, FC Pluchino, JY Wei, JW Rowe - Journal of chronic diseases, 1986 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov We conducted a prospective study to identify clinical factors which predispose
institutionalized elderly to syncope. Over 3 years, 97 patients (mean age = 87
+/- 6 y) developed syncope. On clinical evaluation, diagnoses fell into two ... Cited by 98 - Related articles
M Linzer, EN Prystowsky, GW Divine, DB … - Journal of General Internal Medicine, 1991 - Springer Purpose: To develop and validate a predictive model that would allow clinicians
to determine whether an electro- physiologic (EP) study is likely to result in
useful diagnos- tic information for a patient who has unexplained syncope. ... Cited by 22 - Related articles - All 3 versions
MD Silverstein, DE Singer, AG Mulley, GE … - Jama, 1982 - Am Med Assoc The records of 108 patients admitted to a medical intensive care unit (ICU) for
syncope during a two-year period were reviewed. Explicit criteria were used to
classify patients by presumed etiologic diagnosis. Thirty-six percent of ... Cited by 218 - Related articles - All 3 versions
BP Grubb, D Samoil, R Kenny - Hellenic J cardiol, 2003 - hellenicjcardiol.com Syncope, defined as the transient loss of consciousness and postural tone with
spontaneous recovery, is a common clinical problem. Each year in the United
States syncope accounts for approximately 3% of all emergency room visits ... Cited by 6 - Related articles - View as HTML - All 2 versions
SC Day, EF Cook, H Funkenstein, L Goldman - The American journal of medicine, 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 percent of patients) were the most ... Cited by 471 - Related articles - All 4 versions
