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- Title
Syncope: The Diagnostic Value of Head-Up Tilt Testing.
- Authors
Oribe, Emillio; Caro, Susana; Perera, Rohan; Winters, Stephen L.; Gomes, J. Anthony; Kaufmann, Horacio
- Abstract
To determine the usefulness of prolonged head-up tilt in the diagnosis of neurally mediated syncope, 201 patients with history of syncope of unknown cause and 102 age and gender matched control subjects underwent a 40 minute 60 degree head-up tilt test. Head-up tilt elicited syncope (i.e., was positive) in 74 of the 201 patients (37%) with a history of unexplained syncope and in only 6 of the 102 controls (6%). The specificity of the test was 100% in patients 60 years of age and older. Symptoms during tilt-induced syncope were identified by the patients as similar to those they had suffered during their spontaneous episodes. All 80 subjects who had tilt-induced syncope recovered without sequelae. The positive predictive value of a positive response to head-up tilt was 93% and the negative predictive value was 43%. The results indicate that the prolonged head-up tilt test is a very specific procedure of high diagnostic value in patients with a history of unexplained syncope. It is particularly useful in the elderly age groups who have a high incidence of syncope.
- Subjects
SYNCOPE; DIAGNOSIS; PATIENTS; DISEASE complications; SYMPTOMS; CARDIOLOGY
- Publication
Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology, 1997, Vol 20, Issue 4, p874
- ISSN
0147-8389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb05489.x