Patients commonly present with syncope at emergency departments and other facilities for urgent care. Syncope is understood by physicians to be a transient, self-terminating period of cerebral ...

CALGARY, ALBERTA — Researchers estimate that the incidence of driving and having a serious accident causing bodily injury or death is much lower in patients with frequent vasovagal syncope than in the ...

Melbourne, Australia - Contrary to some previous reports, new research involving twins suggests that genes probably do play an important role in vasovagal syncope (VVS) [1]. The new study, which ...

We evaluated the incidence, specific causes, and prognosis of syncope among women and men participating in the Framingham Heart Study from 1971 to 1998. Of 7814 study participants followed for an ...

It is not always the disease or infection which causes our bodies to retaliate in a certain way. There are incidents of fear or fright which makes us loose our senses for some time. This is because of ...