Syncope is a frequent cause for emergency consultation and hospital admission; it is also an indicator of reduced survival rate among older adults. The differential diagnosis may be large ...

You may have heard that people who feel dizzy should sit with their head between their knees, but is that true? And how do ...

Fainting can be scary, but it's often harmless. Known medically as syncope, fainting happens when there’s not enough b ...

Mom Lauren Kelly said Cienna's condition poses a particular problem as she is "a small child learning to walk and interact ...

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This reaction is known as a vasovagal syncope episode, also known as fainting. Vasovagal syncope is a temporary loss of consciousness. The vasovagal response, in which your blood pressure suddenly ...

Syncope is most common in the young and the old, with an incidence peak at around 15 years of age, particularly in women; subsequently, there is a progressive increase in frequency over the age of ...

Dr. William J. Lu-Culligan (Medicine): A 41-year-old man was evaluated at this hospital because of swelling in both ankles and episodes of syncope. The patient had been in his usual state of ...

Medical professionals consider cardiac syncope a serious type of fainting given that it is caused by underlying heart ...

To our knowledge the use of a tilt table to ascertain the effect of a distended bladder and urgency in the orthostatic position in a patient with micturition syncope has not been reported.