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ArticleAnnals of noninvasive electrocardiology : the official journal of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc2021

Syncope associated with supraventricular tachycardia: Diagnostic role of implantable loop recorders.

Stergios Soulaidopoulos, Petros Arsenos, Ioannis Doundoulakis, Dimitrios Tsiachris, Christos-Konstantinos Antoniou, Polychronis Dilaveris, Nikolaos Fragakis, Melani Sotiriadou, Skevos Sideris, Athanasios Kordalis and 4 more

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Article in Annals of noninvasive electrocardiology : the official journal of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Tachyarrhythmias in congenital heart disease.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024
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  5. Catheter ablation in grown-up congenital heart disease patients: A single-center experience.International journal of cardiology. Congenital heart disease · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Stergios SoulaidopoulosFirst Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4150-5286
Petros ArsenosFirst Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4426-8407
Ioannis DoundoulakisFirst Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Dimitrios TsiachrisAthens Heart Centre, Athens, Greece.
Christos-Konstantinos AntoniouFirst Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4861-2404
Polychronis DilaverisFirst Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0399-4111
Nikolaos FragakisThird Department of Cardiology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Melani SotiriadouThird Department of Cardiology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Skevos SiderisState Department of Cardiology, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Athanasios KordalisFirst Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Ageliki LainaFirst Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Dimitrios TousoulisFirst Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Konstantinos TsioufisFirst Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Konstantinos A GatzoulisFirst Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRAristotle University of Thessaloniki · GRHippocration General Hospital · GRAthens Medical Center · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Syncope represents a relatively uncommon symptom of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). It is likely that an impaired autonomic vasomotor response to the hemodynamic stress of tachycardia is the determinant of hemodynamic changes leading to cerebral hypoperfusion and syncope. In this regard, tilt-table test may detect abnormalities in the autonomic nervous function and predict the occurrence of syncope during SVT. Electrophysiology studies may reproduce the SVT, distinguish it from other life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias, and exclude other causes of syncope. Not infrequently mixed syncope mechanisms are revealed during the above diagnostic workup raising doubts about the operating mechanism in the clinical setting. In such cases of uncertainty, an implantable loop recorder, providing long-term cardiac monitoring, may play a pivotal role in the establishment of the diagnosis, confirming the association of an arrhythmic event with the symptom. Herein, we present four such cases with recurrent unexplained syncope finally attributed to paroxysmal SVT guiding them to a potentially radical treatment through radiofrequency catheter ablation.

Indexed as

Tachycardia, SupraventricularTachycardia, VentricularElectrocardiographyHumansSyncopeTilt-Table Testelectrophysiology testimplantable loop recordersupraventricular tachycardiasyncopetilt-table test

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PMID33955102
PMCPMC8411760
OpenAlexW3157953162

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