Case reports

Reflex syncope cases

Vasovagal syncope

• Vasovagal syncope interrupting sleep
• Vasovagal fainting in teenagers and young adults
• Malignant vasovagal syncope due to blood phobia
• Reflex syncope in older adults
• Syncope and the eye
• Transient loss of consciousness with muscle jerks during a flight: syncope or epilepsy
• Post exercise vasovagal syncope
• A pilot with vasovagal syncope: fit to fly?
• Hallucinations cured by pacing
• Status vasovagalis
• EEG recordings during syncope
• Aborting a vasovagal faint by the combination of leg crossing and muscle tensing
• Patient education of physical countermanoeuvres using continuous on-screen blood pressure monitoring

Orthostatic Hypotension cases

Orthostatic hypotension due to autonomic failure

• Self-diagnosis of orthostatic hypotension in a patient with autonomic failure
• Disabling orthostatic hypotension caused by sympathectomies performed for hyperhidrosis
• Orthostatic hypotension due to arterial baroreflex failure
• Effects of some common daily activities on orthostatic tolerance in a patient with pure autonomic failure

Initial orthostatic hypotension

• Initial orthostatic hypotension induced by rising from squatting
• Initial orthostatic hypotension as a cause of syncope in an adolescent
• Initial orthostatic hypotension and syncope due to medications in a 60 year old male

Orthostatic hypotension. Various

• Hypotensive TIA’s
• Unexplained transient loss of consciousness after legionella pneumonia
• Physical manoeuvres that reduce postural hypotension in autonomic failure

Effects of straining

• Hypotension due to straining in a patient with a high spinal cord lesion
• Self-induced syncope: the fainting lark

Cardiac syncope

Rhythm disturbances

• Nocturnal heart block

Long QT

Long QT Syndrome Exposed by

• Effort
• Immersion
• Noise

Brugada Syndrome

• Brugada Syndrome and nocturnal arrhythmia
• Brugada Syndrome and fever