2018 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of syncope

Authors/Task Force Members: Michele Brignole* (Chairperson) (Italy), Angel Moya* (Co-chairperson) (Spain), Frederik J. de Lange (The Netherlands), Jean-Claude Deharo (France), Perry M. Elliott (UK), Alessandra Fanciulli (Austria), Artur Fedorowski (Sweden), Raffaello Furlan (Italy), Rose Anne Kenny (Ireland), Alfonso Mart ın (Spain), Vincent Probst (France), Matthew J. Reed (UK), Ciara P. Rice (Ireland), Richard Sutton (Monaco), Andrea Ungar (Italy), and J. Gert van Dijk (The Netherlands)

Christophe Leclercq | Raffaello Furlan | Rose Anne Kenny | Haran Burri | Marco Roffi | Richard Sutton | Piotr Ponikowski | Oliver Gaemperli | Peter Jüni | Jose Luis Zamorano | Juhani Knuuti | Gerhard Hindricks | László Sághy | Philippe Mabo | Pedro Silva Cunha | Patrizio Lancellotti | Stephan Windecker | Emanuele Barbato | Franz Xaver Roithinger | Theresa McDonagh | Adam Torbicki | Lennart Bergfeldt | Giorgio Costantino | Jean-Claude Deharo | Josef Kautzner | Donna Fitzsimons | Matthew J Reed | Evgeny Shlyakhto | Hannu Parikka | Olivier Piot | Stefan Agewall | Angel Moya | Perry M Elliott | Roy Beinart | Yves Vandekerckhove | Antonio Coca | Marija Vavlukis | G. Hindricks | P. Ponikowski | C. Morillo | I. Simpson | C. Leclercq | V. Aboyans | E. Mirrakhimov | A. Torbicki | J. Blanc | Verónica Dean | J. Zamorano | P. Jüni | S. Windecker | J. Kautzner | W. Shen | J. Knuuti | N. Bornstein | B. Iung | J. Deharo | M. Brignole | H. Burri | P. Elliott | R. Furlan | M. Piepoli | A. Raviele | H. Bueno | J. G. van Dijk | R. Kenny | R. Beinart | G. Costantino | S. Boveda | H. Katus | T. McDonagh | S. Agewall | J. Collet | M. Roffi | V. Probst | E. Barbato | H. Mølgaard | M. Reed | R. Sutton | E. Lambrinou | A. Ungar | P. Lancellotti | E. Shlyakhto | P. Cunha | P. Mabo | K. Haugaa | I. Coman | V. Delgado | M. Vavlukis | F. Roithinger | P. Lim | Y. Vandekerckhove | J. Gajek | L. Bergfeldt | P. Kułakowski | Á. Moya | M. Hemels | O. Gaemperli | O. Piot | D. Richter | C. Rice | D. Fitzsimons | R. Baranowski | A. Coca | T. Klingenheben | P. Vanbrabant | F. D. de Lange | A. Fanciulli | A. Fedorowski | Alfonso Martín | J. Moreno | R. Asteggiano | E. Díaz-Infante | Faas Dolmans | M. Stockburger | Victor Aboyans | Vincent Probst | Jean-Jacques Blanc | Bernard Iung | Victoria Delgado | Antonio Raviele | Héctor Bueno | Jean-Philippe Collet | J Gert van Dijk | Stefan Osswald | Serge Boveda | Artur Fedorowski | I. Lozano | Veronica Dean | Miguel Sousa-Uva | Dimitrios J Richter | Michele Brignole | D. Puljević | G. Dan | M. Sousa-Uva | Spyridon Deftereos | P. Mitro | Carlos A Morillo | S. Osswald | Carlo Dimmer | Andrea Ungar | Alessandra Fanciulli | M. Hemels | S. Abdelali | S. Deftereos | H. Burri | Kristina H Haugaa | Thomas Klingenheben | Win K Shen | L. Bertelli | Erkin Mirrakhimov | A. Abdrakhmanov | Mostafa Nawar | Henning Mølgaard | Massimo Francesco Piepoli | Piotr Kulakowski | Natan Bornstein | Gheorghe-Andrei Dan | Ekaterini Lambrinou | Ernesto Díaz-Infante | Martin Stockburger | L. Sághy | Javier Moreno | Kakhaber Etsadashvili | Frederik J de Lange | Alfonso Martín | Ciara P Rice | Riccardo Asteggiano | Faas Dolmans | Jacek Gajek | Iain A Simpson | Peter Vanbrabant | Ioan Mircea Coman | Hugo Albert Katus | Alexandr Chasnoits | Vasil B Traykov | Davor Puljevic | Elias Papasavvas | Kristjan Gudmundsson | Ayan Abdrakhmanov | Oskars Kalejs | Hisham A Benlamin | Aras Puodziukynas | Mark A Sammut | Aurica Raducan | Mihailo Vukmirović | Salima Abdelali | Martin E W Hemels | Rafał Baranowski | Tatyana Tyurina | Luca Bertelli | Peter Mitro | Ignacio Fernández Lozano | Ben Halima Afef | H Murat Özdemír | P Boon Lim | M. Nawar | H. Parikka | C. Dimmer | K. Etsadashvili | M. Sammut | M. Vukmirović | K. Gudmundsson | A. Chasnoits | A. Puodžiūkynas | T. Tyurina | V. Delgado | M. Sammut | O. Kalējs | R. Sutton | M. Roffi | V. Traykov | Elias Papasavvas | Aurica Raducan | H. Özdemír | A. Puodziukynas | P. Jüni | P. Kulakowski | Mostafa Nawar | M. Sousa‐Uva | A. Ungar | E. Shlyakhto | J. V. van Dijk | W. Shen | V. Dean | P. Jüni | Donna Fitzsimons | Patrizio Lancellotti | Jean-Philippe Collet | Massimo F. Piepoli | Emanuele Barbato | Gheorghe-Andrei Dan | Hisham Benlamin | J. L. Zamorano | Artur Fedorowski | Stefan Agewall | Theresa McDonagh | Luca Bertelli | Piotr Ponikowski | Stephan Windecker | Perry M. Elliott | H. Katus | Dimitrios J. Richter | Héctor Bueno | Bernard Iung | Gerhard Hindricks | Antonio Coca | A. Torbicki | Jean-Jacques Blanc | Carlos A. Morillo | László Sághy | Iain A Simpson | I. Coman | Christophe Leclercq | Ayan Abdrakhmanov | Raffaello Furlan | Rose Anne Kenny | Angel Moya | Alessandra Fanciulli | Alfonso Martín | Vincent Probst | Matthew J. Reed | J. G. van Dijk | Javier Moreno | Giorgio Costantino | Jacek Gajek | Piotr Kułakowski | Win K Shen | Alexandr Chasnoits | Yves Vandekerckhove | V. Traykov | Elias Papasavvas | Henning Mølgaard | Hannu Parikka | Marija Vavlukis | Kristjan Gudmundsson | Carlo Dimmer | Mark A Sammut | Aurica Raducan | S. Abdelali | Rafał Baranowski | Pedro Silva Cunha | Tatyana Tyurina | Peter Mitro | Ignacio Fernandez Lozano | Lennart Bergfeldt | Stefan Osswald | Ben Halima Afef | H Murat Özdemír | P Boon Lim | Theresa Mcdonagh | M. Piepoli | Peter Jüni | P. Ponikowski | Marija Vavlukis | Marija M Vavlukis | Theresa A McDonagh | J. Zamorano

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