Syncope

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Syncope

• Loss of consciousness

Causes

• postural hypotension
  • on standing up
  • elderly
  • females
• Vasovagal stimulation
  • emotion
  • pain
• carotid sinus
  • external pressure - e.g. shirt collar
• valve disease
  • aortic stenosis
  • mitral / left atrial tumour
• Stoke-Adams attacks
  • self-limiting
  • arrhythmias

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