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Prediction of the Time to Syncope Occurrence in Patients Diagnosed with Vasovagal Syncope

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Intracranial Pressure & Neuromonitoring XVI

Part of the book series: Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement ((NEUROCHIRURGICA,volume 126))

Abstract

Objective: In this study we aimed to predict the time to syncope occurrence (TSO) in patients with vasovagal syncope (VVS), solely based on measurements recorded during the supine position of the head-up tilt (HUT) testing protocol.

Methods: We extracted various time and frequency domain features related to morphological aspects of arterial blood pressure (ABP) and the electrocardiogram (ECG) raw signals as well as to dynamic interactions between beat-to-beat ABP, heart rate, and cerebral blood flow velocity. From these we identified the most predictive features related to TSO.

Results: Specifically, when no orthostatic stress is involved, TSO in VVS patients can be predicted with high accuracy from a set of only five ECG features.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Kyriaki Kostoglou

  2. Department of Neurology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Ronald Schondorf, Julie Benoit & Saharnaz Balegh

  3. Department of Bioengineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Georgios D. Mitsis

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Kostoglou, K., Schondorf, R., Benoit, J., Balegh, S., Mitsis, G.D. (2018). Prediction of the Time to Syncope Occurrence in Patients Diagnosed with Vasovagal Syncope. In: Heldt, T. (eds) Intracranial Pressure & Neuromonitoring XVI. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement, vol 126. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65798-1_61

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