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ACG Case Rep J
January 2025
Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
Syncope is characterized by a transient loss of consciousness. Swallow syncope, a rare cause of syncope, is caused by vagus nerve activation resulting in vasodilation and bradycardia, thus causing transient hypotension and cerebral hypoperfusion. It is diagnosed through clinical history, cardiac, and esophageal evaluation.
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August 2024
IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Faint & Fall Research Centre, Department of Cardiology, S. Luca Hospital, 20149, Milan, Italy.
Aims: The study evaluated the positivity rate, haemodynamic responses, and prognosis in terms of syncopal recurrence among patients with situational syncope (SS) stratified according to the underlying situational triggers.
Methods And Results: We retrospectively evaluated all consecutive patients with SS who underwent nitroglycerine (NTG)-potentiated head-up tilt test (HUTT) at Syncope Unit of the University of Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli'-Monaldi Hospital from 1 March 2017 to 1 May 2023. All patients were followed for at least one year.
J Interv Card Electrophysiol
August 2024
Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute, 5100 W 110Th Street, Suite 200, Overland Park, KS, 66211, USA.
eNeurologicalSci
June 2024
Department of Neurology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan.
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