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Latest revision as of 16:32, 20 January 2021

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sahar Memar Montazerin, M.D.[2] Sara Zand, M.D.[3]

Overview

CT scan is useful when other modalities are inconclusive for evaluation of structural heart disease in the presence of syncope (Class2b, 2017AHA/ACC/HRS guideline). If syncope is suspected due to pulmonary thromboembolism,pulmonary CT angiography is recommended.

CT Scan

2017 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Patients With Syncope[1]

Cardiac Imaging

Class IIb
Computed tomography (CT) may be useful in selected patients presenting with syncope of suspected cardiac etiology. (Level of Evidence:B) [2]"

References

  1. Shen, Win-Kuang; Sheldon, Robert S.; Benditt, David G.; Cohen, Mitchell I.; Forman, Daniel E.; Goldberger, Zachary D.; Grubb, Blair P.; Hamdan, Mohamed H.; Krahn, Andrew D.; Link, Mark S.; Olshansky, Brian; Raj, Satish R.; Sandhu, Roopinder Kaur; Sorajja, Dan; Sun, Benjamin C.; Yancy, Clyde W. (2017). "2017 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Patients With Syncope: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society". Circulation. 136 (5). doi:10.1161/CIR.0000000000000499. ISSN 0009-7322.
  2. Probst, Marc A.; Kanzaria, Hemal K.; Gbedemah, Misato; Richardson, Lynne D.; Sun, Benjamin C. (2015). "National trends in resource utilization associated with ED visits for syncope". The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 33 (8): 998–1001. doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2015.04.030. ISSN 0735-6757.