Syncope cases /
This book presents a unique collection of clinical cases to help combat the difficulty of diagnosis and treatment of Syncope. Medical professionals using this book are provided with a reference to a large array of succinctly described and illustrated clinical scenarios. Each case is presented with t...
| Други автори: | Garcia-Civera, Roberto. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Malden, Mass. :
Blackwell Futura,
2006.
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Syncope cases. |
Съдържание:
- Cover
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Abbreviations
- Part I Neurally mediated (reflex) syncope
- Clinical presentation
- 1 Vasovagal fainting in children and teenagers
- 2 Typical vasovagal syncope (blood/injury phobia)
- 3 Reflex syncope in older adults
- 4 Transient loss of consciousness with muscle jerks: syncope or epilepsy?
- 5 Tilt-induced syncope: mixed response
- 6 Tilt-induced syncope: cardioinhibitory response
- 7 Tilt-induced syncope: purely vasodepressor response
- 8 Tilt-induced syncope: dysautonomic response
- 9 Tilt-induced syncope: chronotropic incompetence
- 10 Syncope and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
- 11 Electroencephalography recordings during syncope
- 12 Psychogenic reaction during tilt-table testing
- 13 Neuromediated syncope presenting as a paroxysmal atrioventricular block
- 14 Multiple manifestations of the cardioinhibitory mechanism detected during prolonged electrocardiographic monitoring
- 15 Neuromediated syncope masquerading as unexplained falls
- 16 Post-exercise vasovagal syncope
- 17 Post-exercise neuromediated syncope
- 18 Vasovagal syncope interrupting sleep
- 19 Syncope during pregnancy
- 20 A pilot with vasovagal syncope: fit to fly?
- 21 Recurrent syncope in a patient with no structural heart disease and a negative tilt-table test
- 22 Swallow syncope associated with asystole
- 23 Swallow syncope presenting with atrioventricular block
- 24 Transient glossopharyngeal syncope
- 25 Tussive syncope
- 26 Laughter-induced syncope
- 27 Syncope and the eye
- Treatment
- 28 Long-term follow-up of vasovagal syncope with a long asystolic pause
- 29 Averting a vasovagal faint with a combination of leg crossing and muscle tensing
- 30 Vasovagal syncope averted using arm-tensing maneuvers
- 31 Training patients in physical countermaneuvers using continuous on-screen blood-pressure monitoring
- 32 Vasovagal syncope treated with tilt training
- 33 Psychological treatment of malignant vasovagal syncope due to blood phobia
- 34 Syncope relapse in a patient with cardioinhibitory neuromediated syncope treated with pacing
- Carotid sinus syndrome
- 35 Carotid sinus syndrome
- 36 Carotid sinus hypersensitivity only during tilting
- 37 Complex cardioinhibitory neurally mediated syncope
- 38 Carotid hypersensitivity syndrome secondary to neck tumor
- 39 Syncope in a case of carotid body paraganglioma
- 40 Recurrent syncope in a carotid sinus patient treated with a pacemaker
- 41 Unexplained falls in older patients
- Part II Orthostatic hypotension
- 42 Initial orthostatic hypotension as a cause of syncope in an adolescent
- 43 Initial orthostatic hypotension and syncope due to medications in a 60-year-old man
- 44 Initial orthostatic hypotension induced by standing up from squatting
- 45 Self-induced syncope: the fainting lark
- 46 Self-diagnosis of orthostatic hypotension in a patient with autonomic failure
- 47 Unexplained transient loss of consciousness in a 58-year-old man after Legionella pneumonia
- 48 Physical maneuvers that reduce postural hypotension in autonomic failure
- 49 Disabling orthostatic hypotension caused by sympathectomies for hyperhidrosis
- 50 Orthostatic hypotension due to arterial baroreflex failure
- 51 Hypotension due to straining in a patient with a high spinal-cord le.