Usefulness of the Calgary Syncope Symptom Score for the diagnosis of vasovagal syncope in the elderly | Zendy

Víctor Expósito | Zendy; Juan Carlos Guzmán | Zendy; Matthew Orava | Zendy; Luciana Armaganijan | Zendy; Carlos A. Morillo | Zendy

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Usefulness of the Calgary Syncope Symptom Score for the diagnosis of vasovagal syncope in the elderly

Author(s) -

Víctor Expósito,

Juan Carlos Guzmán,

Matthew Orava,

Luciana Armaganijan,

Carlos A. Morillo

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

ep europace

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.119

H-Index - 102

eISSN - 1532-2092

pISSN - 1099-5129

DOI - 10.1093/europace/eut042

Subject(s) - medicine , vasovagal syncope , syncope (phonology) , confidence interval , gold standard (test) , population , disease , predictive value of tests , cardiology , pediatrics , environmental health

The Calgary Syncope Symptom Score (CSSS) has been validated as a simple point score of historical features with high sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of vasovagal syncope (VVS) in younger populations without evidence of structural heart disease. Our purpose was to evaluate the performance of the CSSS in an elderly population with suspected VVS.

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