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Syncope MRI

Introduction

Overview

Overview

Cardiac MRI can be useful in the presence of syncope and suspected structural or infiltrative heart disease such as arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia or cardiac sarcoidosis.

MRI

MRI

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

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

Cardiac Imaging

Class IIb
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be useful in selected patients presenting with syncope of suspected cardiac etiology. (Level of Evidence:B) [2]”
References

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.

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