Incidence and predictive factors of acute diseases in patients with syncope: the ESCAPE study.

ABSTRACT: According to the 2018 ESC guidelines, emergency physicians shall primarily aim to identify syncopal episodes associated with an underlying acute principal disease. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to assess the incidence of syncope associated with acute principal diseases (APDs) and to identify predictive factors reflecting the presence of these underlying conditions. We retrospectively evaluated all patients presenting with syncope during a 6-month period to the local emergency department, collecting incidence of syncopal cases associated with APDs, personal information, clinical features, and laboratory abnormalities, which were compared between syncopal patients with or without APDs. A syncope-associated APD could be diagnosed in 346/1279 patients (27.1%). In the majority of cases, th

SUBMITTER: Numeroso F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7971406 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature