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

1 According to the current European Society of Cardiology syncope guidelines, reflex syncope can be broadly classified into four groups: vasovagal syncope (VVS), situational syncope, carotid sinus ...

A 21 year old man presented with multiple, recurrent episodes of complete atrioventricular (AV) block associated with swallowing. Electrophysiological study revealed an AV block with swallowing of ...

Vasovagal syncope is a condition of emerging importance in older patients. The disease pattern of VVS in older age groups appears to differ from that of younger subjects. Treatment options are ...

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 ...

The authors provide a solid set of data supporting the safety of transcutaneous auricular vagal nerve stimulation on cardiovascular parameters in the acute setting of critically ill patients ...

This study evaluated the role of transcutaneous auricular vagal nerve stimulation (taVNS) in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) randomized to taVNS vs sham, finding that those with active ...

The differential diagnosis may be large, but bradyarrhythmias, neurocardiogenic syncope, carotid hypersensitivity syndrome, and orthostatic hypotension are the more frequent causes. Good history ...

Objective: We aimed to establish useful models for the clinical differential diagnosis between vasovagal syncope (VVS) and psychogenic pseudosyncope (PPS). Methods: This bicentric study included 176 ...