ALLMedicine™ Syncope Center

Mar 16th, 2023 - Practice Essentials Primary cardiac tumors (PCTs) occur along a pathologic spectrum that includes benign, malignant, and intermediate with uncertain biological behavior. More than 90% of PCTs are benign; most of these are myxomas (see the images b...

Mar 16th, 2023 - Practice Essentials Primary cardiac tumors (PCTs) occur along a pathologic spectrum that includes benign, malignant, and intermediate with uncertain biological behavior. More than 90% of PCTs are benign; most of these are myxomas (see the images b...

Mar 16th, 2023 - To investigate the impact of the coronavirus-disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on European clinical autonomic practice. Eighty-four neurology-driven or interdisciplinary autonomic centers in 22 European countries were invited to fill in a web-based...

Mar 16th, 2023 - A high prevalence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) has been found in China, but it rarely occurs with syncope. Studies have demonstrated that syncope due to NPC may be related to carotid sinus syndrome, glossopharyngeal irritation, and parapharyn...

Mar 14th, 2023 - Evidence indicates left atrial (LA) involvement in vasovagal syncope (VVS). The LA regulates left ventricular filling during the cardiac cycle. We aimed to assess LA function in patients with VVS by 2D speckle-tracking echocardiography. Sixty-nine...

May 8th, 2021 - Syncope and presyncope lead to well over one million emergency room visits in the United States each year. Elucidating the cause of syncope or presyncope, which are grouped together given similar etiologies and outcomes, can be exceedingly difficu...

Mar 7th, 2021 - Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a neurodegenerative disorder primarily characterized by autonomic failure plus parkinsonism or cerebellar ataxia. The diagnosis may be challenging and is usually made at a tertiary care center. The long-term manage...

Mar 19th, 2019 - This paper presents the diagnostic criteria for hemodynamic orthostatic dizziness/vertigo to be included in the International Classification of Vestibular Disorders (ICVD). The aim of defining diagnostic criteria of hemodynamic orthostatic dizzine...

Mar 14th, 2017 - 2017 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Patients With Syncope: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Soc...

Mar 14th, 2017 - 2017 ACC/AHA/HRS guideline for the evaluation and management of patients with syncope: Executive summary: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Soc...

Mar 8th, 2023 - This study is being completed to determine the feasibility and acceptability of completing a home-based, structured, low-to-moderate intensity exercise training program in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) patients following su...

Mar 6th, 2023 - Background. Syncope is the most frequent cause of transient loss of consciousness. Falls are very common in older people. If the falls are unexplained and not accidental, it is likely that the patient had a syncope event and showed a lack of aware...

Mar 6th, 2023 - This will be a randomized, double-blind, parallel-arm study in which the subjects will undergo a tilt table test following 2 doses of ondansetron 8 mg PO (evening before and morning of study) or after 2 doses of matching placebo (on separate days)...

Mar 3rd, 2023 - Congenital coronary anomalies (ACC) are relatively rare heart disease, in which a congenital defect of origin, course, and term, of one or more epicardial cardiac coronary arteries, is recognized. The global prevalence is estimated at around 0.6-0...

Mar 2nd, 2023 - This is a non-randomized feasibility study that will enroll up to 50 participants that have undergone a previous autonomic reflect screen (ARS) assessment and were either diagnosed with OH or reflex syncope, or considered to be control subjects fo...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Evidence from three studies in sports cardiology presented at ACC 2023 piqued my interest. Not only because I love endurance sport but because the studies reported data that upset prevailing ideas.

Mar 1st, 2023 - Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are a physical manifestation of a psychological disturbance. They are characterized by episodes of altered subjective experience and movements that can resemble epilepsy, syncope, or other paroxysmal disord.

Feb 21st, 2023 - Irregular sleeping habits were associated with measures of subclinical atherosclerosis, including coronary artery calcium burden and abnormal ankle‐brachial index, in middle age. (Journal of the American Heart Association) Meanwhile, better cardio...

On October 25, 2016, media reports alerted the Uganda Ministry of Health to an outbreak of >80 cases of vomiting, syncope, and acute diarrhea among workers at a flower farm in central Uganda; 27 workers were hospitalized. On November 1, an investi...

Nov 15th, 2022 - In most cases, passengers on an airline flight are representative of the general population, which means that anyone could have an emergency at any time. A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2013 showed that a medical emerge...