Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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