We thank Grossman et al. [
[1]
] for their wonderful article on the incidence of critical interventions or adverse
outcomes associated with near syncope comparing these outcomes with the ones of patients
with true syncope. In addition, we would like to emphasize that physicians should
further evaluate for arrhythmias in patients with either near syncope or true syncope
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Article Info
Publication History
Published online: February 04, 2013
Accepted:
November 17,
2012
Received:
November 13,
2012
Footnotes
â?†Funding: None.
��Conflict of interest: None.
â?…Authorship: All authors participated in writing the manuscript and had access to data. The authors have no commercial associations or sources of support that might pose a conflict of interest.
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