Vasovagal syncope is the medical term for the most benign kind of fainting, i.e. simple fainting without a serious underlying ...

Behr notes. The syncope that most concerns health care professionals is cardiac syncope, blacking out due to an underlying heart disease such as a heart rhythm abnormality, or arrhythmia ...

However, there's another form of fainting that raises alarm among health professionals. Cardiac syncope refers to losing consciousness due to an underlying heart disease, such as a heart rhythm ...

a Neurally mediated and orthostatic syncopes account for 56-66% of cases, whereas a cardiac cause is present in only 14% of cases. Reproduced with permission from Oxford University Press ...

Among Framingham participants with syncope, VVS was diagnosed in 21.2% of participants versus cardiac syncope (9.5%) and orthostatic syncope (9.4%); in 36.6% of patients, the cause of syncope was ...

Behr notes. The syncope that most concerns healthcare professionals is cardiac syncope, blacking out due to an underlying heart disease such as a heart rhythm abnormality, or arrhythmia ...

Behr notes. The syncope that most concerns healthcare professionals is cardiac syncope, blacking out due to an underlying heart disease such as a heart rhythm abnormality, or arrhythmia ...