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A Study of Its Relation to Cardiac Disease

CHARLES J. SCHREADER, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1956;98(2):142-145.

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Syncope, or common fainting, is a sudden, usually brief episode of unconsciousness due to a transient dysfunction of certain vital centers. These dramatic episodes never fail to provoke both lay and professional interest. Admittedly the caues of syncope are as varied as the circumstances which surround each appearance of this state. The excellent monograph of Engel¹ carefully scrutinizes the many etiologic factors involved in the production of this symptom.

That syncope occurs as a manifestation, symptom, or coexistent sign of cardiac disease is usually the thought of the layman rather than the physician. Many of the textbooks of medicine and cardiology regard syncopal attacks to be of little importance or of doubtful significance to the cardiologist unless associated with complete heart block, ventricular tachycardia, or the syndrome of carotid sinus hypersensitivity. Recently, however, more attention is being given to the fact that the cardiac arrhythmias may precipitate or be . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Philadelphia

Footnotes
Received for publication Feb. 28, 1956.

Clinical Assisant Professor of Medicine, Woman's Medical College; Director Cardiovascular Section, Nazareth Hospital; Assistant Cardiologist, Philadelphia General Hospital, Northern Division; Attending Cardiologist, U. S. Veterans Hospital.

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