Medically reviewed by Mary Josephine Hessert, DO Common triggers for vasovagal syncope include extreme heat and ...

Syncope is a reversible loss of consciousness and postural vascular tone resulting from a sudden lack or decrease of cerebral blood flow. [11] In other words, diminished oxygen to the brain makes a ...

Barcelona, Spain, 31 August: A new definition of syncope – most commonly perceived as an episode of fainting – makes its diagnosis more precise and now dependent on a specific cause. New 2009 ESC ...

The study covered in this summary is under consideration at Cardiovascular Diabetology and was published on researchsquare.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Patients with type 2 ...

Fainting, medically known as syncope, is a condition that may need immediate medical attention. The causes of fainting may range from mild to severe conditions. Fainting is the temporary loss of ...

Dysautonomia is a broad term for conditions that range from fainting to more serious life threatening conditions. Some are quite common, and some are extremely rare. Dysautonomia is a nervous system ...

You may have heard that people who feel faint should sit with their heads between their knees, but is that true? And how can you tell whether you or someone else who has fainted should go to the ...

Former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi after ...

Fainting is not solely caused by external factors. Your genes also play a part. Based on data from more than 400,000 individuals they have identified the first gene that predisposes to fainting.

THE present emergency has provided an unusually abundant opportunity for the study of syncope, or fainting, in blood donors. Although not in itself serious, fainting results in loss of time to the ...