If the patient has a history of fainting and a specific diagnosis explaining the syncopal episodes, they should still make the health care practitioner aware that he or she had another episode of fainting. The health care practitioner can decide if the patient needs to be evaluated. Although ...
For instance, this patient’s hyperorality is likely to be secondary to Alzheimer’s disease developed after May. This coincides with the second syncopal episode and the subsequent syncope, which progressively became more frequent. All of these episodes were at rest and almost exclusively occurred ...
Elimination of cough eliminates the resultant syncopal episodes[63]. The patient may have a fixed upward deviation of the eyes during the syncopal episode, which should not be confused with epilepsy. EEG shows temporary slowing during the attack but no seizure discharges. It is always ...
oxygenation help to counteract the effect of the vasovagal response." Bear in mind that syncopal episodes (fainting) are caused by reduced oxygen supply to the brain due to either poor breathing or reduced blood flow. Dr. Gurwood offers this mnemonic: "...
Syncope is transient loss of consciousness with inability to maintain postural tone, from which the patient recovers spontaneously.[1] In children, syncopal episodes typically last seconds and occur without neurologic sequelae.[2] Fifteen percent to 25% of children experience and seek care for syncop...
A 70 year old male with a history of hyperlipidemia, chronic kidney disease IIIb and recent trans-urethral resection of prostate presented to the emergency room with a week of presyncopal and syncopal episodes associated with urination and standing. Evaluation revealed dramatic swings in blood press...
(VAERS) included complaints of fever, nausea, headache or pain; 14 percent were for syncopal episodes (fainting) with or without neurological signs (including, but not limited to seizures); and eight percent experienced tingling, numbness and loss of sensation, facial paralysis or Guillain-Barre ...
fluid (CSF) pressure increases causing reduced brain perfusion; or a cerebral concussion-like effect due to rapid CSF pressure elevation. Another theory suggests that the cough initiates a neurally-mediated reflex vasodepressorbradycardia. Elimination of cough eliminates the resultant syncopal episodes[...
The electrocardiogram (ECG) presented in Figure 1 was obtained from a 62-year-old woman, with a 10-year history of heart palpitations and several syncopal and presyncopal episodes in the last few months, who was referred for electrophysiological study and pacemaker implantation. The echocardiogram...
Syncope is a common occurrence in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. About one symptomatic patient out of three has already experienced or will experience one or more syncopal episodes [1]. Although an exhaustive epidemiological assessment of syncope in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy has never been performed, some...