Permanent cardiac pacing in elderly patients with recurrent falls, dizziness and syncope, and a hypersensitive cardioinhibitory reflex. Export

@article{Crilley97, abstract = {The study was designed to assess the outcome of treatment with permanent dual-chamber pacing of elderly patients with falls, dizziness and syncope associated with the demonstration of a hypersensitive cardioinhibitory reflex. Questionnaires were sent to patients (and their general practitioners) who had been referred to a regional pacing centre with recurrent falls, dizziness or syncope diagnosed as likely to be secondary to cardioinhibitory carotid sinus syndrome or predominantly cardioinhibitory vasovagal syndrome. After pacemaker insertion, 84\% of patients had no further syncope over a mean follow-up period of 10 (range 1.5 to 30) months. Minor symptoms persisted in only 40\% of all patients. Symptoms were unchanged in 22\%. It was concluded that permanent dual-chamber pacing is an effective treatment for elderly patients with recurrent falls, dizziness and syncope in whom a hypersensitive cardioinhibitory reflex is found. Good results were obtained in this group with a simple diagnostic work-up.}, author = {Crilley, J. G. and Herd, B. and Khurana, C. S. and Appleby, C. A. and de Belder, M. A. and Davies, A. and Hall, J. A.}, citeulike-article-id = {3558756}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9338027}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=9338027}, issn = {0032-5473}, journal = {Postgraduate medical journal}, keywords = {falls, ipg}, month = {July}, number = {861}, pages = {415--418}, posted-at = {2008-11-17 16:09:26}, priority = {2}, title = {Permanent cardiac pacing in elderly patients with recurrent falls, dizziness and syncope, and a hypersensitive cardioinhibitory reflex.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9338027}, volume = {73}, year = {1997} }

TY - JOUR ID - Crilley97 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3558756 N2 - The study was designed to assess the outcome of treatment with permanent dual-chamber pacing of elderly patients with falls, dizziness and syncope associated with the demonstration of a hypersensitive cardioinhibitory reflex. Questionnaires were sent to patients (and their general practitioners) who had been referred to a regional pacing centre with recurrent falls, dizziness or syncope diagnosed as likely to be secondary to cardioinhibitory carotid sinus syndrome or predominantly cardioinhibitory vasovagal syndrome. After pacemaker insertion, 84% of patients had no further syncope over a mean follow-up period of 10 (range 1.5 to 30) months. Minor symptoms persisted in only 40% of all patients. Symptoms were unchanged in 22%. It was concluded that permanent dual-chamber pacing is an effective treatment for elderly patients with recurrent falls, dizziness and syncope in whom a hypersensitive cardioinhibitory reflex is found. Good results were obtained in this group with a simple diagnostic work-up. IS - 861 JF - Postgraduate medical journal SN - 0032-5473 EP - 418 TI - Permanent cardiac pacing in elderly patients with recurrent falls, dizziness and syncope, and a hypersensitive cardioinhibitory reflex. VL - 73 SP - 415 KW - falls KW - ipg AU - Crilley, JG AU - Herd, B AU - Khurana, CS AU - Appleby, CA AU - de Belder, MA AU - Davies, A AU - Hall, JA PY - 1997/07// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9338027 ER -