Abstract
Background: This study aimed to describe the clinical and paraclinical profile, and describe 24-hour continuous electrocardiographic monitoring in patients with syncope. Subjects & methods: A cross-sectional study of 58 patients diagnosed with syncope at Bach Mai Hospital. Results: The average age of the study group was 59.05 ± 16.97. The proportion of men was higher than that of women, accounting for 55.2%, 44.8% of patients with syncope experienced an aura, almost 55.2% of patients had no aura, the duration of syncope was mainly 1-5 minutes, making up 56.9%, only 22.4% of patients had anemia, 22.4% had hypokalemia, 20.7% increased high-sensitive troponin T (hs-TnT), 8.6% had structural/functional abnormalities/cardiomyopathy. The rate of positive 24-hour continuous electrocardiographic monitoring results was 10.3%, approximately 3.4% having supraventricular tachycardia, 1.7% having ventricular tachycardia, 8.6% having cardiac arrest lasting more than 3 seconds, and just 1.7% having third-degree atrioventricular block.
